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1 Dialects  





2 Writing system  





3 Phonology  



3.1  Consonants  





3.2  Vowels  



3.2.1  Monophthongs  





3.2.2  Diphthongs  









4 References  





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Angor
Senagi
RegionPapua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages

Native speakers

1,500 (2004)[1]

Language family

Senagi

  • Angor

Language codes
ISO 639-3agg
Glottologango1254
ELPAngor
Coordinates: 3°40′53S 141°12′27E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)

Angor (Anggor) a.k.a. Senagi is a Senagi language of northern Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in 11 villages of Amanab Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, including Senagi village (3°40′53S 141°12′27E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)) of Bibriari ward.[1][2]

Dialects[edit]

Dialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).[3]

Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:[4]

Writing system[edit]

Angor alphabet[5]
Orthography IPA
A a /ɑ/
B b /b/
D d /d/
E e /e/
F f /ɸ/
G g /ɡ/
H h /x/
I i /i/
Ɨ ɨ /ə/
K k /k/
M m /m/
Mb mb /ᵐb/
N n /n/
Nd nd /ⁿd/
Ŋ ŋ /ŋ/
Ŋg ŋg /ᵑɡ/
O o /o/
P p /p/
R r /ɾ/
S s /s/
T t /t/
U u /u/
Ü ü /ɨ/
W w /w/
Y y /j/

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

Angor has the following 18 consonants.[6][5]

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Nasal voiced m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d g
prenasalized ᵐb d ᵑɡ
Fricative ɸ s x
Tap/Flap ɾ
Approximant w j

Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:[5]

Vowels[edit]

Monophthongs[edit]

Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.[6]

Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Close-mid e[a] o[a]
Mid ə
Open a
  1. ^ a b Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram.

Diphthongs[edit]

Phoneme Orthography Gloss
Closing /ai/ kaiahɨ white cockatoo
hai fire
/au/ nau like.V.COMP
bau father
/ao/ penao knife
sao give.me.IMP
/ei/ ahei go.3FPL
/o.u/[a] hou COMPL.3MPL
tɨ mouyanɨ mosquito
Opening /oa/ koako shell
gogoa there
Height-harmonic /ui/ mbuifɨ fingernail
yikui papaya
/oe/ hoeyembɨ sugarcane
baboe type of banana
nɨmoei stone
  1. ^ /o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence

Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b AngoratEthnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  • ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  • ^ Steer, Martin (2005). Languages of the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea (PDF). Canberra: Australian National University.
  • ^ Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
  • ^ a b c d Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022.
  • ^ a b Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  • External links[edit]


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