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Agta, Casiguran Dumagat

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: dgc

Population	610 (2000 T. Headland).
Region	Luzon east coast, Aurora Province.
Language map	Northern Philippines, reference number 29
Alternate names	Casiguran Dumagat
Dialects	Intelligibility with Paranan [agp] 83%.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Northern Luzon, Northern Cordilleran, Northeastern Luzon, Northern
Language use	All ages. Also use Filipino [fil].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 2%. Literacy rate in L2: 2%. NT: 1979.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Negrito. There is pressure from Filipino homesteaders moving into the area. Traditional lands now used by homesteaders for agriculture. Hunter-gatherers.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Early, John D. and Thomas N. Headland. 1998. Population dynamics of a Philippine rain forest people: The San Ildefonso Agta.

Griffin, P. Bion and Thomas N. Headland. 1994. "The Agta of the Philippines."

Headland, Janet. 1966. "Case-marking particles in Casiguran Dumagat."

Headland, Thomas N. 1971. "Spirit beings."

Headland, Thomas N. 1975. "The Casiguran Dumagats today and in 1936."

Headland, Thomas N. 1977. "Teeth mutilation among the Casiguran Dumagat."

Headland, Thomas N. 1980. "Cultural ecology, ethnicity, and the Negritos of northeastern Luzon: a review article."

Headland, Thomas N. 1981. "Information rate, information overload, and communication problems in the Casiguran Dumagat New Testament."

Headland, Thomas N. 1981. Taxonomic disagreement in a culturally salient domain: botany versus utility in a Philippine negrito taxonomic system.

Headland, Thomas N. 1983. "An ethnobotanical anomaly: The dearth of binomial specifics in a folk taxonomy of a Negrito hunter-gatherer society in the Philippines."

Headland, Thomas N. 1984. "Agta Negritos of the Philippines."

Headland, Thomas N. 1985. "Imposed values and aid rejection among Casiguran Agta."

Headland, Thomas N. 1985. "International economics and tribal subsistence: a report of a microeconomic study of a Negrito hunter-gatherer society in the wake of the Philippine crisis of 1983."

Headland, Thomas N. 1986. Why foragers do not become farmers: a historical study of a changing ecosystem and its effects on a Negrito hunter-gatherer group in the Philippines.

Headland, Thomas N. 1987. "Kinship and social behavior among Agta Negrito hunter-gatherers."

Headland, Thomas N. 1987. "Negrito religions: Negritos of the Philippines Islands."

Headland, Thomas N. 1987. "The wild yam question: How well could independent hunter-gatherers live in a tropical rain forest ecosystem?."

Headland, Thomas N. 1988. "Ecosystemic change in a Philippine tropical rainforest and its effect on a Negrito foraging society."

Headland, Thomas N. 1989. "Population decline in a Philippine Negrito hunter-gatherer society."

Headland, Thomas N. 1990. "Paradise revised."

Headland, Thomas N. 1990. "Time allocation, demography, and original affluence in a Philippine Negrito hunter-gatherer society."

Headland, Thomas N. 1997. "Endangered languages and SIL’s role in recording rare data for posterity."

Headland, Thomas N. 1999. "Managing the natural resources of the Sierra Madre: what is the role of the Agta."

Headland, Thomas N. 1999. "The indigenous peoples’ rights act ’A triumph of political will’."  

Headland, Thomas N. 2003. "Thirty endangered languages in the Philippines."  

Headland, Thomas N. 2004. "Basketballs for bows and arrows: deforestation and Agta culture change."

Headland, Thomas N. and Alan Healey. 1974. "Grammatical sketch of Dumagat (Casiguran)."

Headland, Thomas N. and Elmer Wolfenden. 1967. "The vowels of Casiguran Dumagat."

Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 1974. A Dumagat (Casiguran) - English dictionary.

Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 1994. "Westernization, deculturation, or extinction among Agta Negritos? The Philippine population explosion and its effect on a rainforest hunting and gathering society."

Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 1997. "Limitation of human rights, land exclusion, and tribal extinction: The Agta Negritos of the Philippines."

Headland, Thomas N. and Janet D. Headland. 2007, 2009. Agta Demographic Database: chronicle of a hunter-gatherer community in transition.  

Headland, Thomas N. and Janet Headland. 1988. "Rice cultivation practices in a Negrito foraging society in northeastern Luzon, Philippines."

Headland, Thomas N. and Lawrence A. Reid. 1991. "Holocene foragers and interethnic trade: a critique of the myth of isolated independent hunter-gatherers."

Headland, Thomas N. and P. Bion Griffin, compilers. 1997. "A bibliography of the Agta Negritos of Eastern Luzon, Philippines."  

Hemley, Robin. 2005. "Laurie Reid's importance to the Tasaday controversy."

Howell, Nancy. 1999. "The demographic puzzle of the Philippine Agta [review of Population dynamics of a Philippine rain forest people: the San Ildefonso Agta]."

Vernacular Publications

Lagip na Agta. 1965.  

Lagip ni Tariri. 1971.  

Libru a pégbasaan. 1979.  

Magadal kitam a magbasa. 1979.  

Pakodyan tam a mangibut ta saket a tibi. 1969.  

Philippine reader. 1965.

Puruméru / Ikadua / Ikatello / Ikaepat / Ikalima a libru a pegbasaan 1-5. 1965.  

Tu aso sakay tu bakokol. 1965.