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Not to be confused with Ata Manobo language.
Ata
Native to Philippines
Region Negros Island
Extinct(3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013) [1]
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.

Notes

  1. ^ a b 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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