Mount Iriga Agta language

Inagta Rinconada
Inagta Rinconada
Mt. Iriga Agta, West Buhi Agta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Native speakers	(1,500 cited 1979)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Bikol languages Inland Bikol Inagta Rinconada; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agz
Glottolog	mtir1235

Inagta Rinconada (Mount Iriga Agta) is a Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer Agta (Negrito) people of the Philippines. It is spoken to the east of Iriga City up to the shores of Lake Buhi. The language is largely intelligible with Mount Iraya Agta on the other side of the lake.

The Rinconada Agta live primarily in forests near rural barangays of Buhi, Iriga (including a settlement in the Ilian area), and Baao in Camarines Sur (Lobel 2013:68).^[2]

Locations

Reid (1994)^[3] also reports a closely related variety called Rugnot spoken in the area of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur. Inagta locations listed by Reid (1994) are as follows.

Santa Niño, Hayagan, and Santa Cruz, Ipil, Buhi, Camarines Sur
San Augustine, Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
San Ramon, Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL

References

^ Inagta Rinconada at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation thesis). Manoa: University of Hawaii at Manoa.
^ Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (1): 37–72. doi:10.2307/3623000. hdl:10125/32986. JSTOR 3623000.