Ata language (Negros)

{{Short description|Philippine Negrito language}}

{{distinguish|Ata Manobo language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Ata

|nativename=

|states=Philippines

|region=Negros Island

|extinct=(3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013)

|ref=

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Philippine

|fam4=Central Philippine

|fam5=(unclassified)

|iso3=atm

|glotto=ataa1240

|glottorefname=Ata

}}

Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or four elderly individuals in northern Negros Island, Philippines,{{harvp|Lobel|2013|page=85}} although two of those died in 2021.

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References

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  • {{Cite thesis |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |title=Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction |date=2013 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa |url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf |language=en}}

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{{Philippine languages}}

{{Languages of the Philippines}}

Category:Central Philippine languages

Category:Endangered Austronesian languages

Category:Languages of Negros Oriental

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