Umiray Dumaget language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Umiray Dumaget
|altname=
|states=Philippines
|region=Aurora & Quezon, Luzon
|speakers=3,000
|date=1994
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Philippine?
|fam4=Greater Central PhilippineUmiray Dumaget is under Greater Central Philippine language family according to Glottolog and Ethnologue.
|iso3=due
|glotto=umir1236
|glottorefname=Umiray Dumaget Agta
}}
Umiray Dumaget is an Aeta language spoken in southern Luzon Island, Philippines.
Location
Umiray Dumaget is spoken along the Pacific coast of eastern Luzon, Philippines, from just south of Baler, Aurora, to the area of Infanta, Quezon, and on the northern coast of Polillo Island.Himes 2002:275–276 Himes (2002) reports little dialectal variation.
Reid (1994)Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages." In Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jun. 1994), pp. 37–72. reports the following locations for Umiray Dumaget (Central Agta).
- Umiray, General Nakar, Quezon
- Dibut, San Luis, Aurora
- Bunbun, Panukulan, Polillo, Quezon
The language is also spoken in Dingalan, Aurora, most especially in Umiray.
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Umiray Dumaget consonants ! colspan="2" | |
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
!voiceless |{{IPA link|p}} |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |({{IPA link|ʔ}}) |
|---|
| voiced
|{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} | |{{IPA link|ɡ}} | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | |{{IPA link|ŋ}} | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
| |{{IPA link|s}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |{{IPA link|r}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Lateral
| |{{IPA link|l}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
|{{IPA link|w}} | |{{IPA link|j}} | | |
= Vowels =
Classification
Umiray Dumaget is difficult to classify. Himes (2002) posits a Greater Central Philippine connection.Himes, Ronald S. 2002. The relationship of Umiray Dumaget to other Philippine languages. Oceanic Linguistics 41(2):275–294. {{JSTOR|3623311}}. However, Lobel (2013)Lobel, Jason William. 2013. [http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182924/http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.{{rp|230}} believes that Umiray Dumaget may be a primary branch of the Philippine languages, or may be related to the Northeastern Luzon languages, Sambali-Ayta (Central Luzon), or Manide and Inagta Alabat. According to Lobel (2013), Umiray Dumaget does not subgroup in the Central Philippine or even Greater Central Philippine branches.Lobel 2013:275
References
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Category:Languages of Aurora (province)
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