Atta language

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Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines

Atta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Aeta
Native speakers	(2,000 cited 1998–2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Ibanagic Atta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: azt – Faire Atta att – Pamplona Atta atp – Pudtol Atta dyg – Villa Viciosa Agta† (?)
Glottolog	atta1244
ELP	Faire Atta

Atta is an Austronesian dialect cluster spoken by the Aeta (Agta) Negritos of the northern Philippines.

Varieties

There are three varieties according to Ethnologue.

• Faire Atta (Southern Atta): spoken near Faire, Rizal, Cagayan
• Pamplona Atta (Northern Cagayan Negrito): spoken in Pamplona, Cagayan; similar to northern Ibanag
• Pudtol Atta: spoken in Pudtol, Apayao, and the Abulog river area south of Pamplona

Villa Viciosa Atta, supposed once spoken in Villaviciosa, Abra, is presumed to be related, but is unattested.

Reid (1994) also reports the following locations for Southern Cagayan Agta.

• Minanga, Peñablanca, Cagayan
• Conyan, Minanga, Peñablanca, Cagayan
• Sapinit, Maconacon, Isabela
• Makagaw (Dupaninan), Cagayan

References

1. ^ Faire Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Pamplona Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Pudtol Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Villa Viciosa Agta^† (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Villa Viciosa Atta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. ^ 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.

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