There are five indigenous languages in Quezon province. There are the dominant Tagalog language, the Manide language in the east and a small portion in the north, the Agta Dumagat Umiray language in the north and a small area in the center, the already-extinct Katabaga language which used to be in the south, and the endangered Ayta Kadi (Alabat Agta) language in Alabat island and some areas in the south.
In 2010, UNESCO released its 3rd world volume of Endangered Languages in the World, where 3 critically endangered languages were in the Philippines. One of these languages is the Alabat Island Agta language (recognized by the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino as the Ayta Kadi language) which has an estimated speaker of 30 people in the year 2000.
The language was classified as Critically Endangered, meaning the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently and hardly pass the language to their children and grandchildren anymore. Without a municipality-wide teaching mechanism of the Ayta Kadi (Alabat Agta) language for the youth, the language may be extinct within 1–2 decades, making it a language in grave peril unless a teaching-mechanism is established by either the government or an educational institution in the municipality of Alabat
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