Mount Iriga Agta language
{{Short description|Bikol language spoken in the Philippines}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Inagta Rinconada
|altname=Mt. Iriga Agta, West Buhi Agta
|states= Philippines
|region = Luzon
|speakers=1,500
|date=1979
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Philippine
|fam4=Central Philippine
|fam5=Bikol languages
|fam6=Inland Bikol
|iso3=agz
|glotto=mtir1235
|glottorefname=Mt. Iriga Agta
}}
Inagta Rinconada (Mount Iriga Agta) is a Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is spoken to the east of Iriga City up to the shores of Lake Buhi. The language is largely intelligible with Mount Iraya Agta on the other side of the lake.
The Rinconada Agta live primarily in forests near rural barangays of Buhi, Iriga (including a settlement in the Ilian area), and Baao in Camarines Sur (Lobel 2013:68).{{Cite thesis |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |title=Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction |date=2013 |degree=Ph.D. dissertation |publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa |url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf |place=Manoa}}
Locations
Reid (1994){{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Lawrence A. |date=1994 |title=Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |language=en |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=37–72 |doi=10.2307/3623000|jstor=3623000 |hdl=10125/32986 |hdl-access=free }} also reports a closely related variety called Rugnot spoken in the area of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur. Inagta locations listed by Reid (1994) are as follows.
- Santa Niño, Hayagan, and Santa Cruz, Ipil, Buhi, Camarines Sur
- San Augustine, Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
- San Ramon, Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
References
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Bibliography
- Villegas, L. M. T. (2010). A Grammatical Sketch Of Iriga Agta
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{{Bikol languages}}
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Category:Languages of Camarines Sur
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