Ati language

Ati
Inati
Native to Philippines
Region Panay
Ethnicity Ati people
Native speakers
(1,500 cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 atk
Glottolog atii1237[2]

Ati (Inati) is a language of the island of Panay in the Philippines. The variety spoken in northern Panay is also called Sogodnin (Pennoyer 1987).[3] The Ati people also speak Kinaray-a and Hiligaynon.

Classification

Pennoyer (1987) and Reid (2013)[4] consider Inati to be an isolate with the Philippine languages. It differs markedly from the Visayan languages and has many features not found in the Central Philippine languages.

Inati shows some unique sound changes.[4]

Locations

Lobel (2013:75) lists the following Ati communities in the Philippines, with populations given in parentheses.

Total: 8,728+

Baruah (2000) lists the following locations.

Pennoyer (1987) reports that Sogodnin is spoken by a few remaining speakers in Cogon, Malay (whose ancestors had moved from interior Sabang to Bakirohan to Cogon), and on Carabao and Boracay islands.

References

  1. Ati at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ati". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Douglas F. Pennoyer. 1987. Inati: the Hidden Negrito Language of Panay, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Linguistics 18/19. 1-36.
  4. 1 2 http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2063&context=humbiol

External links

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/iloilo/local-news/2011/10/21/7-ip-communities-benefit-development-program-186329

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