Hatang Kayi language

Remontado, also known by the autonym Hatang-Kayi and in the literature as Kabalat, Remontado Dumagat, and the erroneous names Sinauna/Sinaunang Tagalog,^[1] is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Tanay, Rizal, General Nakar, Quezon (including in Paimahuan, Limoutan^[3]), Rodriguez, Rizal and Antipolo, in the Philippines. It is one of the Philippine Negrito languages. It is a moribund language.^[4]

Remontado Dumagat
Sinauna, Remontado Agta
Hatang-Kayi[1]
Native to	Philippines
Region	Tanay, Montalban, and Antipolo in Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon
Native speakers	(2,500 cited 2000)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Luzon Remontado Dumagat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agv
Glottolog	remo1247
Area where the Hatang Kayi language is spoken

Terminology

The language is referred to by various terms in linguistic literature. The speakers refer to their language as Hatang-Kayi ('this language') while Remontado is the most common term in English literature used to refer to both the community and their language. Sinauna (meaning 'ancient' or 'old' in Tagalog) is a term used in some literature that originates after the language's discovery in the 1970s but has never been used by the speakers of the language themselves. Remontado Agta has also been used but this is also erroneous as speakers of this language are never referred to as Agta.^[1]

Classification

Reid (2010)^[5] classifies the language as a Central Luzon language, just like Kapampangan and Sambal.

Distribution

The Remontado Dumagat were traditionally found in the mountains around the boundary between Sampaloc district in Tanay, Rizal, and General Nakar, Quezon (Lobel 2013:72-73).^[6]

Today, Remontado is spoken in the following five villages, where it is only spoken by elderly people over the age of 50 (Lobel & Surbano 2019).^[1] Two of the villages are in Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province, and three of the villages are in Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province.

• Minanga (Sentro), Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
• Sitio Sari, Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
• Sitio Paimuhuan, Barangay Limutan, General Nakar town, Quezon Province
• Sitio Nayon, Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province
• Sitio Kinabuan, Barangay Santa Inez, Tanay town, Rizal Province

References

1. Lobel, Jason William; Surbano, Orlando Vertudez (2019). "Notes from the Field: Remontado (Hatang Kayi): A Moribund Language of the Philippines". Language Documentation and Conservation. 13: 1–34. hdl:10125/24796.
2. Remontado Dumagat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
3. Reid, Lawrence A. (1994). "Possible Non-Austronesian Lexical Elements in Philippine Negrito Languages". Oceanic Linguistics. 33 (1): 37–72. doi:10.2307/3623000. hdl:10125/32986. JSTOR 3623000.
4. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/agv(subscription required)
5. Reid, Lawrence A. (2010). "Historical linguistics and Philippine hunter-gatherers" (PDF). In Billings, Loren; Goudswaard, Nelleke (eds.). Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines. pp. 234–260.
6. Lobel, Jason William (2013). Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PhD thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/101972.