Ata language (Negros)

Ata
Ata
Native to	Philippines
Region	Negros Island
Native speakers	1–2 (2021)[citation needed]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine (unclassified) Ata; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	atm
Glottolog	ataa1240
ELP	Ata

Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

As of 2013, Ata was reportedly spoken by no more than three or four elderly individuals in northern Negros Island, Philippines,^[1] although two of those died in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

↑ Lobel (2013), p. 85

References

Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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