Northern Alta

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Northern Alta is an Austronesian language spoken by the Alta indigenous people in the mountainous regions of northern Aurora province in the Philippines.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
indigenous language
belongsToSubgroup Alta languages
closelyRelatedTo Southern Alta NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Philippines
dataCollectedBy linguists
distinctFrom Southern Alta NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Alta people NERFINISHED
glottologName Northern Alta NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Alta (Northern) NERFINISHED
Alta, Northern NERFINISHED
Altas of Aurora
Edimala NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasDialects Alta (Northern variety)
hasGlottocode nort2782
hasLinguisticArea Northern Philippines NERFINISHED
hasMorphosyntacticType verb–initial language
hasPhonologicalFeature Austronesian-type phoneme inventory
hasSpeakerAttitude bilingualism with regional lingua francas
hasSpeakerCommunityType indigenous community
hasUsageDomain community gatherings
home
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 aqn
isSpokenInPartOf northern Aurora province
isSpokenInTerrain mountainous regions
languageFamily Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus threatened
region Luzon NERFINISHED
spokenBy Alta people NERFINISHED
Northern Alta people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Aurora province NERFINISHED
Philippines
subjectOf field linguistics research
threatenedBy language shift to Ilocano
language shift to Tagalog
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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