Also Known As:
Southern Alta, Kabuluen, Kabuluwan, Kabuluwen, "Baluga", "Kabalat", Pugot
Dialects & Varieties
Southern Alta (Kabulowan) (Philippines) - Language Snapshot
Abreu, Marvin Maximo. 2020. Southern Alta (Kabulowan) (Philippines) - Language SnapshotLanguage
Documentation and Description 19, 17-25. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/205
Severely Endangered
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~400-500; 400 (Headland, 2010)
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
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Only about half of community members speak the language. Speaker numbers are decreasing steadily, but not at an accelerated pace.
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Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 4
Used mainly only in the home and/or with family, and may not be the primary language even in these domains for many community members.
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Transmission
Transmission 3
Some adults in the community are speakers, but the language is not spoken by children.
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Speakers
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Young adults
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Older adults
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Elders
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Year information was gathered
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Location and Context
Countries
The Kabulowan live along river tributaries in the Sierra Madre mountains in the northern Philippines. This particularly includes the municipalities of Dona Remedios Trinidad in Bulacan, General Tinio and Gabaldon in Nueva Ecija, and San Luis in Aurora on Luzon Island..
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Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
The Kabulowan are multilingual. Elders have considerable knowledge of their language, beliefs, customs, and traditions, but language attrition is accelerating due to intermarriage, changes in lifestyle, political and cultural repression, and use of Tagalog.
Other Languages Used By The Community
Tagalog, Bulos (Umiray Dumaget), Edimala (Northern Alta), Bulacan (Tagalog dialect), Nueva Ecija (Tagalog dialect)
Number of Other Language Speakers:
None
Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
"This paper reports the results of fieldwork undertaken during the summer, 1987, on various little-k
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