アルタ語資料 (Arta Materials)

The Arta language, or the language of Edilod (‘people from the downriver’), is a language spoken by the Negrito population in Luzon, the Philippines. Yukinori Kimoto has been working on the language since 2012, and the first-hand materials about the language are available from the following sources.

For Arta vocabulary (In progress), the same content is available in PDF and Web version:

  • Number of entries (Feb. 01, 2021):
    • Root words: 2144
    • Root and derived words: 3522
  • Citation (example):
    Kimoto, Yukinori. In Progress. Arta (Edilod) – English Dictionary.  SIL International. Available at https://www.webonary.org/arta/.
    (PDF version)

Grammatical description:

Phonology and subgrouping:

Discourse material synchronized with audio data (morphological and syntactic glossings based on GRAID annotation system)

  • Kimoto, Yukinori. 2019. Multi-CAST Arta. In Haig, Geoffrey & Schnell, Stefan (eds.), Multi-CAST: Multilingual corpus of annotated spoken texts. (multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/#arta).