Endangered Languages Project - Bataan Ayta

Bataan Ayta

^{[aka Mariveles Ayta, Bataan Sambal, Ayta, Bataan]}

Classification: Austronesian

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mariveles Ayta, Bataan Sambal, Ayta, Bataan
CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central Luzon
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ayt
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge

Endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
527
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1986

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: The speakers who are Negrito, are fairly bilingual in Tagalog. Their number is decreasing from pressure of the large Botolan Sambal language, and of Tagalog.
More on Orthography: No literacy in it.

PLACES: Philippines

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the central part of the wide neck-section of Luzon which is north of Manila. It is in Bataan Province.

500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from S. Wurm (2000).

PLACES: Philippines;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
500
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Australia and the Pacific” (424-557) . Stephen A Wurm (2007) Routledge