hatang Kayi language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Remontado Dumagat
|altname=Sinauna, Remontado Agta
|map=Remontado Dumagat language map.png
|mapcaption=Area where the Hatang Kayi language is spoken
|states=Philippines
|region= Tanay, Montalban, and Antipolo in Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon
|speakers={{sigfig|2530|2}}
|date=2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Philippine
|fam4=Central Luzon
|iso3=agv
|glotto=remo1247
|glottorefname=Hatang Kayi
}}
Remontado, also known by the autonym Hatang-Kayi and in the literature as Kabalat, Remontado Dumagat, and the erroneous names Sinauna/Sinaunang Tagalog, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Tanay, Rizal, General Nakar, Quezon (including in Paimahuan, Limoutan{{Cite journal |last=Reid |first=Lawrence A. |date=1994 |title=Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=37–72 |doi=10.2307/3623000 |jstor=3623000 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10125/32986}}), Rodriguez, Rizal and Antipolo, in the Philippines. It is one of the Philippine Negrito languages. It is a moribund language.https://www.ethnologue.com/language/agv
Terminology
The language is referred to by various terms in linguistic literature. The speakers refer to their language as {{Lang|agv|Hatang-Kayi}} ('this language') while Remontado is the most common term in English literature used to refer to both the community and their language. {{Lang|tl|Sinauna}} (meaning 'ancient' or 'old' in Tagalog) is a term used in some literature that originates after the language's discovery in the 1970s but has never been used by the speakers of the language themselves. Remontado Agta has also been used but this is also erroneous as speakers of this language are never referred to as Agta.
Classification
Reid (2010){{Cite book |last=Reid |first=Lawrence A. |title=Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan |publisher=Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines |year=2010 |editor-last=Billings |editor-first=Loren |location=Manila |pages=234–260 |chapter=Historical linguistics and Philippine hunter-gatherers |editor-last2=Goudswaard |editor-first2=Nelleke |chapter-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226140936/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/724f/2edfad51c759e7e84cc29776c288d9ca96c3.pdf}} classifies the language as a Central Luzon language, just like Kapampangan and Sambal.
Distribution
The Remontado Dumagat were traditionally found in the mountains around the boundary between Sampaloc district in Tanay, Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon (Lobel 2013:72-73).{{Cite thesis |last=Lobel |first=Jason William |title=Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction |date=2013 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Hawaii at Manoa |hdl=10125/101972 |hdl-access=free}}
Today, Remontado is spoken in the following five villages, where it is only spoken by elderly people over the age of 50 (Lobel & Surbano 2019).{{Cite journal |last1=Lobel |first1=Jason William |last2=Surbano |first2=Orlando Vertudez |date=2019 |title=Notes from the Field: Remontado (Hatang Kayi): A Moribund Language of the Philippines |journal=Language Documentation and Conservation |volume=13 |pages=1–34 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10125/24796}} Two of the villages are in Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province, and three of the villages are in Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province.
- Minanga (Sentro), Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
- Sitio Sari, Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
- Sitio Paimuhuan, Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
- Sitio Nayon, Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province
- Sitio Kinabuan, Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province
References
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{{Central Luzon languages}}
{{Languages of the Philippines}}
{{Northern Philippine languages}}
{{Philippine languages}}
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Category:Central Luzon languages
Category:Endangered Austronesian languages
Category:Languages of Rizal (province)
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