Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.
Ata | |
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Native to | Philippines |
Region | Negros Island |
Extinct | (3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | atm |
Glottolog | ataa1240 |
ELP | Ata |
As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or four elderly individuals in northern Negros Island, Philippines,[1] although two of those died in 2021.
Notes
edit- ^ a b Lobel (2013), p. 85
References
edit- Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.