Agta

Agta (plural Agtas or Agta)

1. Alternative form of Aeta

• gata

Ágta

1. Aeta people (indigenous people of Negrito origin of the mountainous parts of Luzon)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaʀta (“outsiders, alien people”). Compare Tuwali Ifugao Alta, Kapampangan Eta, Remontado Agta ata, Bikol Central agta, Cebuano agta, Maranao agta' / Aita, and Tausug agta'. Doublet of Ayta.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaɡˈta/ [ʔɐɡˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: Ag‧ta

Agtá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜄ᜔ᜆ)

1. Aeta people (indigenous people of Negrito origin of the mountainous parts of Luzon)

• “Agta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaRta”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• atag, taga, gata, taga-