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Agutaynen

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: agn

Population	15,000 (2007 SIL).
Region	Agutaya Island, 5 smaller surrounding islands; Roxas, San Vicente, and Brooke’s Point, Palawan municipalities. A few on Mindoro, in Taytay, Linapacan, and Manila.
Language maps	Southern Philippines, reference number 105 Southern Philippines, reference number 105
Alternate names	Agutayno, Agutaynon
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 52% with Cuyonon [cyo]; 71% with Calamian Tagbanwa [tbk].
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Kalamian
Language use	All domains. All ages. Neutral attitude. Most also use some Cuyonon [cyo], Filipino [fil], or English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 90%. Literacy rate in L2: 90%. NT: 2004.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Culturally lowland. Agriculturalists: rice; fishermen.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Benton, Richard. 1993. Review of: Language use and proficiency in a multilingual setting: a sociolinguistic survey of Agutaynen speakers in Palawan, Philippines, by J. Stephen Quakenbush.

Hendrickson, Gail R. and Melissa S. Melvin. 1999. "Child giving and child receiving in a lowland Philippine society."

Himes, Ronald S. 2006. "The Kalamian microgroup of Philippine languages."  

Llavan, Peregrina A. Rauto. 2000. Ginotay-gotay (A collection of poems in Agutaynen, Filipino and English).

Quakenbush, J. Stephen and Edward Ruch. 2006. "Pronoun ordering in Kalamianic."  

Quakenbush, J. Stephen, compiler. 1999. "Agutaynen texts."

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1986. Language use and proficiency in a multilingual setting: a sociolinguistic survey of Agutaynen speakers in Palawan, Philippines.

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1989. Language use and proficiency in a multilingual setting: a sociolinguistic survey of Agutaynen speakers in Palawan, Philippines.

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1991. "Agutaynen glottal stop."

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1992. "Surveying language proficiency."  

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1992. "Word order and discourse type: An Austronesian example."

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1993. "Four years down the road: looking back on the Agutaynen sociolinguistics survey."

Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1997. "Writing Agutaynen pronouns: Making the most of a mixed-up world."

Vernacular Publications

Bolong ang herbal. 1998.

Magistoria ita!. 1996.

Mga bitalang pangaldaw-kaldaw = Mga salitang pang-araw-araw = Everyday words and expressions. 2006.

Mga bitalang pangaldaw-kaldaw. 1989.

Onopay boaten ta mga may taw ang agtrangkason?. 1998.

Onopay boaten ta mga may taw ang galo-tan ta wi tang sinangoni na?. 1998.

Onopay boaten ta mga may taw ang napaso?. 1999.