Inagta Rinconada (Mount Iriga Agta) is a
Bikol language spoken by a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer
Agta (
Negrito
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) people of the
Philippines
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. It is spoken to the east of
Iriga City up to the shores of
Lake Buhi
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. The language is largely intelligible with
Mount Iraya Agta on the other side of the lake.
The Rinconada Agta live primarily in forests near rural barangays of
Buhi,
Iriga (including a settlement in the Ilian area), and
Baao in
Camarines Sur
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(Lobel 2013:68).
Locations
Reid (1994)
also reports a closely related variety called Rugnot spoken in the area of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur. Inagta locations listed by Reid (1994) are as follows.
*Santa Niño, Hayagan, and Santa Cruz, Ipil, Buhi, Camarines Sur
*San Augustine, Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
*San Ramon, Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur; SIL
References
Bikol languages
Languages of Camarines Sur
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