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Southern Alta language

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Southern Alta
Kabulowan, Kabuluwan
Native toPhilippines
RegionLuzon
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3agy
Glottologsout2905
ELPSouthern Alta
Area where Southern Alta is spoken according to Ethnologue

Southern Alta (also called Kabuluen,[2] Kabulowan or Kabuluwan), is a distinctive Aeta language of the mountains of northern Philippines. It is not close to Northern Alta or to other languages of Luzon.

Southern Alta is spoken primarily in the Sierra Madre of eastern Nueva Ecija and in nearby coastal areas of Quezon Province (Reid 1991:2). Lawrence Reid (1991) collected data from San Miguel, located east of Rio Chico, a barrio (barangay) of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija.

References

  1. ^ Southern Alta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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.