| Remontado Dumagat | |
|---|---|
| Sinauna, Remontado Agta | |
| Hatang-Kayi[1] | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Tanay,Montalban, andAntipolo inRizal, andGeneral Nakar, Quezon |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 2000)[2] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agv |
| Glottolog | remo1247 |
 Area where the Hatang Kayi language is spoken | |
Remontado, also known by the autonymHatang-Kayi and in the literature asKabalat,Remontado Dumagat, and the erroneous namesSinauna/Sinaunang Tagalog,[1] is aMalayo-Polynesian language spoken inTanay, Rizal,General Nakar, Quezon (including in Paimahuan, Limoutan[3]),Rodriguez, Rizal andAntipolo, in thePhilippines. It is one of thePhilippine Negrito languages. It is a moribund language.[4]
The language is referred to by various terms in linguistic literature. The speakers refer to their language asHatang-Kayi ('this language') whileRemontado is the most common term in English literature used to refer to both the community and their language.Sinauna (meaning 'ancient' or 'old' inTagalog) 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 asAgta.[1]
Reid (2010)[5] classifies the language as aCentral Luzon language, just likeKapampangan andSambal.
The Remontado Dumagat were traditionally found in the mountains around the boundary betweenSampaloc district inTanay, Rizal, andGeneral Nakar, Quezon.[6]
Today, Remontado is spoken in the following five villages, where it is only spoken by elderly people over the age of 50.[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.
| Nominative | Genitive | Oblique | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | i (non-past, generic) ta (proximate) ya (nonpast/specific/referential) pu (past/specific) | id | kad | |
| Personal | singular | si | in | kan |
| plural | ra | rará | kannára | |