Ratagnon (also translated asLatagnon orDatagnon, andAradigi) is aregional language spoken by theRatagnon people, an indigenous group fromOccidental Mindoro. It is a part of theBisayan language family and is closely related to otherPhilippine languages. Its speakers are shifting toTagalog. In 2000, there were only two to five speakers of the language. However, in 2010Ethnologue had reported there were 310 new speakers.^[2]

Ratagnon is closely related to theCuyonon language, aBisayan language spoken in theCuyo Archipelago just to the south ofMindoro.^[3]

This may be brought about by migrations of Cuyonons to the southern tip of Mindoro, akin to their migrations to mainland Palawan, a very much gradual process. It could be inferred that these migrations happened at an earlier date before the migrations to mainland Palawan started (around the mid- to late 19th century) due to its diversion from the Cuyonon language (Given that Ratagnon descended from an older language spoken in the general area West of Panay, Ratagnon and Cuyonon are classified under Kuyan), whereas the Cuyonon of mainland Palawan, Calamian and that of the Cuyo itself remain the same language with relatively little dialectal difference.^{[citation needed]}

According to theEthnologue, Ratagnon is spoken in the southernmost extreme tip of Mindoro islands, including the municipalities ofMagsaysay andBulalacao.

• Magsaysay,Occidental Mindoro
• Bulalacao,Oriental Mindoro

Barbian (1977a) lists the following locations.

• lower Caguray River near Santa Teresa,Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro
• San Nicolas,Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro
• Bamban,Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro

Barbian (1977) provides lexical and phonological data for Ratagnon.

In contrast to Cuyonon, Ratagnon dropped the schwa/ë/ sound, instead opting for au/o sound. It too borrowed lexical terms from the languages of its Mangyan neighbors and to a lesser extent Spanish It is notable in Barbian'sMangyan – English Vocabulary,1977 that by that time,^{[clarification needed]} Ratagnon might have already experienced heavy Tagalization, present in words such as 'heart',tagiposon in Cuyonon, albeitpuso in Ratagnon, same with Tagalog'spuso. The word 'why',ayamo in Cuyonon, is noted asbakit andbasi in Ratagnon,bakit (bakin +at) being a loan from Tagalog, andbasi, aHanunuo Ambahan term (hayga being non-Ambahan), perhaps inferring thatbasi is a loan from Ratagnon, as Ambahans have been known to use archaic Hanunuo terms and loans from various languages, one being Ratagnon. This phenomenon is also observed in the Hanunuo traditions of Urukay, perhaps closely related to the Erekay of the Cuyonons, both being a form of Balagtasan. Ratagnon also has terms specific to the lowland river surroundings which are not present in modern Cuyonon, most of which are borrowings from Hanunuo and Buhid, whereas a few are either archaic Cuyonon terms or innovations made within the Ratagnon language. Aside from the aforementioned differences from the Cuyonon language, the two languages are still very much mutually intelligible.

Differences from Cuyonon include:

The usage of thet sound over thed sound, present in:

Usage of thek sound over theg sound:

The aforementioned dropping of the schwa for theu sound present in:

The preference for thel over ther sound:

There are some words that differ in meaning between Cuyonon and Ratagnon; this is most notable in terms specific to their respective surroundings, which has created false friends with almost the same, yet different, meanings.

• Visayan languages
• Endangered Austronesian languages
• Languages of Occidental Mindoro

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