A grammar of Inagta Lopez

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2023
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Abstract
Inagta (lit. spoken in the language of the Agtas) is a distinct yet undefined Philippine Negrito language spoken by a small number of scattered native speakers living in and around the remote areas of Barangay Villa Espina and its adjacent areas in Lopez and its neighboring towns of Calauag, Guinayangan and Tagkawayan, Southern part of Quezon Province, Philippines. Except for occasional mention in hardly any literature, very little is known about the language as no extensive study has ever been done about it yet other than this groundwork study. It may also be considered critically endangered as the native speakers’ population – although yet to be determined with certainty – is assumed in this study to be around 50 or less. Out of this small population, only few remaining elders speak the language with convincing degree of fluency and proficiency while the younger members of the tribe barely speak it as most have already shifted to Manide or Tagalog, or have developed an amalgamated Inagta language due to increasing cases of intermarriage between native Agtas, Manides, and Tagalogs, which further endangers the language. Debatably, this study also argues that Inagta Alabat “language” is non-existent since no linguistic evidence can be found that would prove that such “language” existed and was spoken by the original Negrito inhabitants of the Alabat Island prior to the Lopez Agta migration in the 1970s. It is also further claimed that the language spoken today by the Negrito community in Alabat Island is Inagta Lopez, which is the mother language of the Lopez Agta migrants who now dominates its population as per report of Lobel (2013). Be that as it may, more thorough investigation is needed to validate the claim. Prompted by the current sociolinguistic situations of the Lopez Agtas, this dissertation focuses on the documentation of the Inagta Lopez language. Specifically, it aims to describe the grammar and linguistic features of this language, which includes phonology, morphology, and syntax. Inagta Lopez is a spoken-only language. Its phonological system is clearly straightforward. It has twenty-two (22) sounds, but only twenty (20) of them—i.e., sixteen consonants and four vowels—are phonemic. Minimal pairs (i.e., word positions for consonants and the order of syllables for vowels) are used to establish the phonemic status of each sound. The two remaining sounds are the loaned [r] and the allophonic [ɔ]. A community-based orthography is needed to be conducted to standardize the
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Authors Salipande, Aldrin Ludovice
Journal Malay Journal
Year 2023
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