Umiray Dumaget language

Umiray Dumaget Agta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Native speakers	3,000 (1994)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine ? Umiray Dumaget Agta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	due
Glottolog	umir1236[2]

Umiray Dumaget Agta is an Aeta language of southern Luzon Island.

Location

Umiray Dumaget is spoken along the Pacific coast of eastern Luzon from just south of Baler, Aurora to the area of Infanta, Quezon, and on the northern coast of Polillo Island (Himes 2002:275-276). Himes (2002) reports little dialectal variation.

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

• Umiray, Quezon
• Dibut, San Luis, Aurora
• Bunbun, Panakulan, Polillo, Quezon

Classification

Umiray Dumaget is difficult to classify. Himes (2002) posits a Greater Central Philippine connection. However, Lobel (2013:230) 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, Umiray Dumaget does not subgroup in the Central Philippine or even Greater Central Philippine branches (Lobel 2013:275).

References

1. Umiray Dumaget Agta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Umiray Dumaget Agta". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. 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.

• Himes, Ronald S. 2002. The relationship of Umiray Dumaget to other Philippine languages. Oceanic Linguistics 41(2):275-294.
• 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.