Umiray Dumaget language

Umiray Dumaget
Umiray Dumaget
Native to	Philippines
Region	Aurora & Quezon, Luzon
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1994)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine? (unclassified) Umiray Dumaget; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	due
Glottolog	umir1236

Umiray Dumaget is an Aeta language spoken in southern Luzon Island, Philippines.

Location

Umiray Dumaget is spoken along the Pacific coast of eastern Luzon, Philippines from just south of Baler, Aurora to the area of Infanta, Quezon, and on the northern coast of Polillo Island.^[2] Himes (2002) reports little dialectal variation.

Reid (1994)^[3] reports the following locations for Umiray Dumaget (Central Agta).

Phonology

Consonants

Umiray Dumaget consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	(ʔ)
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

[ʔ] only appears in loanwords.^[4]

Vowels

Umiray Dumaget vowels
	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Open	a

Classification

Umiray Dumaget is difficult to classify. Himes (2002) posits a Greater Central Philippine connection.^[4] However, Lobel (2013)^[5]^: 230 believes that Umiray Dumaget may be a primary branch of the Philippine languages, or may be related to the Northeastern Luzon languages, Sambali-Ayta (Central Luzon), or Manide and Inagta Alabat. According to Lobel (2013), Umiray Dumaget does not subgroup in the Central Philippine or even Greater Central Philippine branches.^[6]

References

^ Umiray Dumaget at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Himes 2002:275–276
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Himes, Ronald S. 2002. The relationship of Umiray Dumaget to other Philippine languages. Oceanic Linguistics 41(2):275–294. JSTOR 3623311.
^ Lobel, Jason William. 2013. Philippine and North Bornean languages: issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction. Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
^ Lobel 2013:275