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Linguist Lawrence Reid reports two different Alta languages,[2] Northern and Southern Alta, which form one of the high nodes of the Northern Luzon languages, together with the South-Central Cordilleran subgroup. Although the Alta languages are genetically related, they have a low level of mutual intelligibility.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Jason Lobel and Laura Robinson did fieldwork on Northern Alta in 2006 (Lobel 2013:87).Alexandro Garc\u00eda-Lagu\u00eda did fieldwork for extended periods between 2013 and 2021 and created a language documentation corpus and a grammatical description of the language.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Geographical distribution[edit]Grammar[edit]References[edit]Further reading[edit]External links[edit]Geographical distribution[edit]There are Northern Alta speakers known as Edimala who live in the Sierra Madre along the river valleys that flow out to the Baler plain in Aurora Province. The Northern Alta also reportedly live in Dibut, on the coast south of Baler municipality, and north of Dicapanisan. Reid (1991) collected Northern Alta data from a speaker of Malabida, who was visiting in Bayanihan, an Ilongot-speaking barangay north of Maria Aurora, Aurora at the edge of the Sierra Madre. Ethnologue also reports that Northern Alta is spoken in San Luis, Aurora.Reid (1994)[3] lists the following locations for Northern Alta.Garc\u00eda-Lagu\u00eda (2018) collected Northern Alta data in the barangays of Diteki, Dianed, and Decoliat.[4] Garc\u00eda Lagu\u00eda (2018) also reported that there were Alta people living in the communities of Malabida, Dimani (Barangay Villa), Dupinga, and Labi.Grammar[edit]Northern Alta is a Philippine-type language.[5] It exhibits a voice system in which one actor voice and three different undergoer voices are distinguished. Subjects and other clause constituents are case-marked: person pronouns and demonstratives inflect for case. Determiner phrases carry a case-marking determiner at the leftmost edge of the phrase. Predicates appear in initial position except when a constituent is topicalized; in this case, a predicate marker (PM) precedes the predicate. The language distinguishes three basic clause types: equational, existential\/locative, and voice-marked.Equational clauses have either a noun, a proform, or a non-verbal phrase in predicate position.Existential and locative clauses are respectively headed by an existential operator or the locative copula \u0294isaj ‘be at’. Both clause types take a predicative complement, which expresses an existing entity in existential clauses or a location in locative clauses.Voice-marked clauses are characterized by an affix that marks the verb for voice, and come in two types, depending on whether the subject expresses an actor or an undergoer. The former type are called actor voice (AV) clauses and the latter are undergoer voice (UV) clauses. UV clauses come in three types, patient voice (PV), locative voice (LV), and conveyance voice (CV). The following example shows an AV clause:(1)AV clausem\u0259nhuli=sijaAV2-hunt=3s.ABSm\u0259nhuli=sija ti \u0294i\u0294an=i]AV2-hunt=3s.ABS OBL fish=SP\u2018he catches some fish\u2019 (85.68) Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) (help);References[edit]Further reading[edit]Reid, Lawrence A. (1991). “The Alta Languages of the Philippines” (PDF).  In Harlow, Ray (ed.). VICAL 2, Western Austronesian and Contact Languages. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Linguistic Society of New Zealand. pp.\u00a0265\u2013297.External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/northern-alta-language-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Northern Alta language – Wikipedia"}}]}]