Southern Alta

E585941

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 ⓘ