Atta language

Atta is an Austronesian dialect cluster spoken by the Aeta (Agta) Negritos of the northern Philippines.

Atta
Native to	Philippines
Region	Luzon
Ethnicity	Aeta
Native speakers	2,000 (1998–2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Northern Luzon Cagayan Valley Ibanagic Atta
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: azt – Faire Atta att – Pamplona Atta atp – Pudtol Atta dyg – Villa Viciosa Agta^† (?)
Glottolog	atta1244[2]

Varieties

There are three varieties according to Ethnologue.

• Faire Atta (Southern Atta): spoken near Faire, Rizal, Cagayan
• Pamplona Atta (Northern Cagayan Negrito): spoken in Pamplona, Cagayan; similar to northern Ibanag
• Pudtol Atta: spoken in Pudtol, Apayao, and the Abulog river area south of Pamplona

Villa Viciosa Atta, supposed once spoken in Villaviciosa, Abra, is presumed to be related, but is unattested.[3]

Reid (1994) also reports the following locations for Southern Cagayan Agta.[4]

• Minanga, Peñablanca, Cagayan
• Conyan, Minanga, Peñablanca, Cagayan
• Sapinit, Maconacon, Isabela
• Makagaw (Dupaninan), Cagayan

References

1. Faire Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Pamplona Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Pudtol Atta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Villa Viciosa Agta^† (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Atta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Villa Viciosa Atta". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. 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.