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Native Speakers Worldwide

11

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A Preliminary Report on the Grammar of Arta
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Critically Endangered

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11

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Semi-speakers

35-45

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Only 11 fluent speakers remain and most of them are over 50. Some 35-45 people have passive knowledge of Arta - they can understand some conversations but can't use Arta properly.

Year of info

2014

Location and Context

Countries

Quirino Province, the Philippines

Coordinates

16.216, 121.599

Location description

"the Barangays of Disimungal, San Ramos, Pongo, and Sangbay in the Municipality of Nagtipunan; in Disimungal, there are several Arta communities in Purok Kalbo, Pulang Lupa, and Tilitilan." (p.2)

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"the Barangays of Disimungal, San Ramos, Pongo, and Sangbay in the Municipality of Nagtipunan; in Disimungal, there are several Arta communities in Purok Kalbo, Pulang Lupa, and Tilitilan." (p.2)

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Other languages used

Nagtipunan Agta; Illokana; Tagalog or Filipino

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The Arta are multilingual - all of them speak Nagtipunan Agta and Illokana; some can use Tagalog or Filipino. Only 11 are capable of speaking Arta properly.

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150

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

16.4225,121.7042

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Critically Endangered

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<17

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Philippines

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Location description

Southeastern part of the head portion of northern Luzon, Quirino Province. The few speakers are scattered in villages, with twelve in Villa San- tiago, and three or four in the town of Nagtipunan.

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Southeastern part of the head portion of northern Luzon, Quirino Province. The few speakers are scattered in villages, with twelve in Villa San- tiago, and three or four in the town of Nagtipunan.

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It is not linguistically close to any other language in the general area. In 1992, there were seventeen speakers, but their numbers decreased since. Moribund, almost extinct.

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15

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Ethnic Population

150

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000). There are 12 speakers in Villa Santiago, 1 in Villa Gracia, and 3 or 4 in Nagtipunan (1992 L. Reid).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Philippines

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