Inagta Alabat language

{{Infobox language

| name = Inagta Alabat

| altname = Alabat Island Agta

| states = Philippines

| region = Quezon

| speakers = 10

| date = 2019

| ref =

| ethnicity = spoken by 5–20% (2020){{e23|dul}}

| familycolor = Austronesian

| fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian

| fam3 = Philippine?

| fam4 = ?

| fam5 = Manide–Alabat

| dia1 = Inagta Lopez

| iso3 = dul

| glotto = alab1246

| glottorefname = Alabat Island Agta

}}

Inagta Alabat (Alabat Island Agta) or Ayta Kadi is a Philippine Negrito language spoken in central Alabat Island, Philippines. Its speakers began arriving on the island in the 1970s but originated from Villa Espina in Lopez, with earlier settlements in Gumaca and perhaps other towns. (Lobel, Alpay, Barreno and Barreno 2020) Predating the Agta on Alabat Island were communities of individuals self-identifying as "dumagat" but who now only speak Tagalog as a native language. Less than a dozen individuals can still speak the Inagta Alabat language whether on Alabat Island, where it is being lost in favor of Tagalog, or in Lopez, where it is being replaced by the language of the Manide who have migrated to the area in large numbers and intermarried with the Agta, and also replaced by Tagalog. Those Agta who can still speak the Inagta language in Lopez speak the same language as the Agta who have migrated to Alabat over the past 50 years. Other Agta in Lopez either speak only Manide, or a mixture of Manide and Inagta Alabat-Lopez.

Classification

Inagta Alabat (Alabat Island Agta) and Ayta Kadi are the same language, though the term "Ayta Kadi" is the name recognized by the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (Commission on the Filipino Language). The term "Inagta Alabat" refers to the language of the Agta people who live in the Alabat Island and neighboring areas of Quezon province. Ayta Kadi is the language spoken by the Ayta Kadi group living in the towns of Alabat, Catanauan, and Lopez in the province of Quezon; and in Barangay Putingkahoy in the town of Rosario in the province of Batangas.{{Cite web |title= Áyta Kadí |url= https://kwfwikaatkultura.ph/ayta-kadi/ |access-date= June 8, 2025 |website= kwfwikaatkultura.ph |language= fil}}

Since Tagalog is the lingua franca in Quezon, it is also the language spoken more by the Áyta Kadí than their native language. In fact, most Áyta Kadí youth have not learned their language and have instead become accustomed to using Tagalog (Filipino) and English, which are the languages of instruction in school.{{Cite web |title= Mga Nanganganib na Wika sa Pilipinas (Endangered Languages in the Philippines) |url= https://kwfwikaatkultura.ph/mga-nanganganib-at-naglahong-wika-ng-pilipinas/ |access-date= June 8, 2025 |website= kwfwikaatkultura.ph |language= fil}}

Inagta Alabat forms a subgroup with Manide.{{sfn|Lobel|2010}} The extinct Katabangan may have also been related.{{Citation |title=Comments received for ISO 639-3 Change Request 2019-024 |url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2019/CR_Comments_2019-024.pdf |year=2020 |publisher=SIL International ISO 639-3 Registration Authority}}

Lexicon

Selected Inagta Lopenze words from Salipande (2022):Salipande, Aldrin Ludovice. 2022. [https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/seals31/cd/Phonology%20of%20Agta%20Lopenze%20%28Salipande%29.pdf Phonology of Agta Lopenze]. Presentation given at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 18–20, 2022.

class="wikitable" ! Gloss !! Inagta Lopenze
afternoon	álem
pig	bébuy
sun, day	degéw
fruit	geʔén
lightning	keldét
to chew	ŋásŋas
butterfly	kalibaŋbáŋ
crocodile	beʔéye
moon	bílan
cloud	dagʔúm
evening, night	diyúm
rattan	uwáy
endonym	agtáʔ
to eat	káʔun
river	sáyug
breast	súsu
tree	káhew
house	beléy
give	awéy
fire	hapúy
navel	púsed
person	táwu
tooth	ŋépen
leg	sukáb
blind	bulég
to cry	íbil
blood	digíʔ
worm	bukbúk

References

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{{Cite journal |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |date=2010 |title=Manide: An Undescribed Philippine Language |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/411422 |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=478–510 |jstor=40983976}}
{{Cite journal |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |last2=Alpay |first2=Amy Jugueta |last3=Barreno |first3=Rosie Susutin |last4=Barreno |first4=Emelinda Jugueta |date=2020 |title=Notes from the Field: Inagta Alabat: A Moribund Philippine Language, with Supporting Audio |journal=Language Documentation & Conservation |volume=14 |pages=1–57 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10125/24912}}

Category:Central Philippine languages

Category:Aeta languages

Category:Languages of Quezon