Bugkalot/Eg̓ongot [ilk] | Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series
- Date: 21 Mar 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
The Voice-Aspect Paradigm in Bugkalot/Eg̓ongot
Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series (PILLS)
21 March | Friday | 1:00 PM
Palma Hall Rm. 428
The third installment of the 2025 Philippine Indigenous Languages Lecture Series (PILLS) features Bugkalot/Eg̓ongot, an endangered Southern Cordilleran language.
ABSTRACT
Bugkalot/Eg̓ongot (ISO 639-3 [ilk]) is an endangered language spoken in less than 2,000 households in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Aurora, and Nueva Ecija. Members of the ethnolinguistic group push for community-based language description and documentation for the revitalization of the language, focusing on orthography and the structure of their grammar. Collaboration between the community and the UP Department of Linguistics started in the 1960s and was reignited in the late 2000s, and the current capacity-building extension project for language documentation started in 2023. This presentation is an output of this endeavor, and will describe certain verb affixes in the language.
In particular, the talk discusses affixes that reflect voice: a change in the form of the verb based on the privileged noun phrase. Examples are also aligned with aspect, which reflects whether the action has been completed or not. We conclude with a general voice-aspect paradigm for Bugkalot/Eg̓ongot, which may inform future collaborations in the general move to document and describe the language.