Inagta Partido (Isarog Agta) or alternatively Katubung is a nearly extinct
Bikol language
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spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer
Agta
Aeta (Ayta ), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines. They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast A ...
(
Negrito
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) people of the
Philippines
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. It is found on
Mount Isarog
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east of
Naga City particularly in the town of
Ocampo where the most recent survey of the language was conducted.
According to Lobel (2013), there are no speakers of Inagta Partido under 60. It is a moribund language. The ''Ethnologue'' cites a report from 2000 that there were then only five speakers from an ethnic population of about 1,000.
Inagta Partido has borrowed heavily from Bikol languages such as Bikol Naga and Bikol Partido, but has a non-Bikol substratum.
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Aeta languages
Bikol languages
Languages of Camarines Sur
Endangered Austronesian languages
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