Southern Alta

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Southern Alta is an Austronesian language spoken by the Alta indigenous people in the mountainous regions of central Luzon in the Philippines.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
indigenous language
basicWordOrder VSO
belongsToMacroArea Papunesia NERFINISHED
continent Asia
country Philippines
documentationStatus poorly documented
domainOfUse home and community communication
ethnicGroup Alta people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Alta (Southern) NERFINISHED
Southern Alta Philippine language NERFINISHED
hasDialects no well-established dialectal division
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive studies by field linguists
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Dumagat languages NERFINISHED
Ilocano NERFINISHED
Northern Alta NERFINISHED
Tagalog NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunityType hunter-gatherer groups
hasVowelSystem five-vowel system
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code agy
isOralTraditionStrong true
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageShiftTo Ilocano NERFINISHED
Tagalog NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology verb–initial
locatedIn Sierra Madre mountain range region NERFINISHED
name Southern Alta NERFINISHED
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Northern Alta NERFINISHED
region mountainous regions of central Luzon
relatedTo Northern Alta NERFINISHED
spokenBy Alta people NERFINISHED
Southern Alta people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Luzon NERFINISHED
Philippines
central Luzon
status severely endangered
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
usedBy Alta indigenous communities

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