| Northern Alta | |
|---|---|
| Edimala | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Luzon |
Native speakers | 200 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aqn |
| Glottolog | nort2875 |
| ELP | Northern Alta |
 Area where Northern Alta is spoken, according to Ethnologue | |
Northern Alta (also called Edimala) is a distinctive Aeta language of the mountains of the Sierra Madre in Aurora province, Northern Philippines. 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.
Jason Lobel and Laura Robinson did fieldwork on Northern Alta in 2006 (Lobel 2013:87).
Alexandro García-Laguía did fieldwork for extended periods between 2013 and 2021 and created a language documentation corpus and a grammatical description of the language.
- ^ Northern Alta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Reid, Lawrence A. (1991). "The Alta Languages of the Philippines". hdl:10125/33016.
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