Native to Philippines Ethnicity 150 (no date) ISO 639-3 atz | Region northern Luzon Native speakers 11 (2013) | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Philippine
Northern Luzon
Arta | ||
Arta is a nearly extinct Negrito language of the northern Philippines. Lawrence Reid's 1990 fieldwork revealed only 12 speakers in Villa Santiago, Aglipay, Quirino Province, and in 1992 it was spoken by only three families. It is not closely related to other languages.
There are still small groups of Arta speakers in Maddela and Nagtipunan towns of Quirino Province (Lobel 2013:88). Arta is currently being documented by Yukinori Kimoto.
Distribution
The Arta are found in the following places within Nagtipunan Municipality.
References
Arta language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA