ABSTRACT The well-known epic chant of hudhud, performed in a number of central and southern municipalities of Ifugao province in Northern Luzon, is widely known to be sung in two closely related languages, Tuwali Ifugao and Amganad Ifugao, both belonging to Central Cordilleran languages of the Philippine group. Apart from the Ifugao languages, the province is also inhabited by speakers of three Southern Cordilleran languages: Yattuka, Keley-i and Kalanguya. Hudhud is also sung by the Yattuka and Keley-i, who perform it only in the Yattuka language. There is also some oral evidence of existence of a hudhud soloist from a sub-group of the Kalanguya people – the Itkak – who, reportedly, used to perform hudhud in her native language. This article deals with the available evidence of this most probably extinct hudhud chanted in the Itkak isolect, which has never been documented before and is highly likely to disappear soon. The situation warrants urgent fieldwork to gather further evidence for this oral tradition and document the linguistic variety in which it is reported to have been chanted.

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伊富高 Itkak 人的 hudhud 痕迹

摘要 在吕宋岛北部伊富高省的一些中南部城市演出的著名的 hudhud 史诗颂歌以两种密切相关的语言而广为人知，Tuwali Ifugao 和 Amganad Ifugao 都属于中科迪勒拉语言菲律宾集团。除了伊富高语外，该省还居住着三种南科迪勒拉语言：Yattuka、Keley-i 和 Kalanguya。Hudhud 也由 Yatuka 和 Keley-i 演唱，他们只用 Yatuka 语言表演。还有一些口头证据表明存在来自 Kalanguya 人的一个亚群 – Itkak – 的 hudhud 独奏家，据报道，她曾经用她的母语表演 hudhud。这篇文章讨论了这个最有可能已经灭绝的 hudhud 在 Itkak isolect 中吟唱的现有证据，以前从未有过记录，而且很可能很快就会消失。这种情况需要进行紧急实地调查，以收集有关这种口头传统的进一步证据，并记录据报道所使用的语言多样性。