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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Alta canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Philippine language
indigenous language
basicWordOrder VSO
belongsToMacroArea Papunesia
continent Asia
country Philippines
documentationStatus poorly documented
domainOfUse home and community communication
ethnicGroup Alta people
hasAlternativeName Alta (Southern)
linked to: Alta (Northern)

Southern Alta Philippine language
hasDialects no well-established dialectal division
hasFeature Austronesian alignment
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive studies by field linguists
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Dumagat languages
Ilocano
Northern Alta
Tagalog
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive stress
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunityType hunter-gatherer groups
hasVowelSystem five-vowel system
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Philippines
ISO639-3Code agy
isOralTraditionStrong true
languageFamily Austronesian
languageShiftTo Ilocano
linked to: Ilocano language

Tagalog
linguisticTypology verb–initial
locatedIn Sierra Madre mountain range region
name Southern Alta
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Northern Alta
region mountainous regions of central Luzon
relatedTo Northern Alta
spokenBy Alta people
Southern Alta people
spokenIn Luzon
Philippines
central Luzon
status severely endangered
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian
usedBy Alta indigenous communities

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northern Alta closelyRelatedTo Southern Alta
Northern Alta distinctFrom Southern Alta
Southern Alta name Southern Alta