Dicamay Agta language
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Dicamay Agta is an extinct
Aeta language The Negrito peoples of the Philippines speak various Philippine languages. They have more in common with neighboring languages than with each other, and are listed here merely as an aid to identification. Classification The following languages are ...
of the northern Philippines. The Dicamay Agta lived on the Dicamay River, on the western side of the Sierra Madre near
Jones, Isabela Jones, officially the Municipality of Jones ( ilo, Ili ti Jones; tl, Bayan ng Jones), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 45,628 people. It is one of only two ...
. The Dicamay Agta were killed by Ilocano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974 (Lobel 2013:98). Richard Roe collected a Dicamay word list of 291 words in 1957.


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Aeta languages Northern Luzon languages Extinct languages of Asia {{philippine-lang-stub