Ata language (Negros)

Not to be confused with Ata Manobo language.

Ata is a nearly extinct Philippine Negrito language spoken in Negros Island in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

Ata
Native to	Philippines
Region	Negros Island
Extinct	(3–4 elderly speakers reported in 2013)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine (unclassified) Ata
Language codes
ISO 639-3	atm
Glottolog	ataa1240
ELP	Ata

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. 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.