Ratagnon language

Ratagnon
Native to	Philippines
Region	Southern tip of western Mindoro
Ethnicity	2,000 Ratagnon (1997)[1]
Native speakers	2 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Central Philippine Visayan Western Visayan Kuyan Ratagnon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	btn
Glottolog	rata1245[2]

Ratagnon (also translated as Latagnon or Datagnon) is a regional language spoken by the Ratagnon people, an indigenous group from Occidental Mindoro. It is a part of the Visayan language family and is closely related to other Philippine languages. Its speakers are shifting to Tagalog, and it is nearly extinct.

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

Distribution

According to the Ethnologue, Ratagnon is spoken in the southernmost extreme tip of Mindoro islands, including the municipalities of Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro and Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro.

• Mindoro Occidental Province (southern extreme tip of Mindoro Occidental, including the Ilin Islands)
• Bulalacao municipality, Mindoro Oriental Province

Classification

Ratagnon may be closely related to the Cuyonon language, a Visayan language spoken in the Cuyo Archipelago just to the south of Mindoro.^[3]

References

1. Ratagnon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ratagnon". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. http://www10.gencat.cat/pres_casa_llengues/AppJava/frontend/llengues_detall_print.jsp?id=960&idioma=5

• Barbian, Karl-Josef. 1977. The Mangyan languages of Mindoro. Cebu City: University of San Carlos.