Angor language
| Angor | |
|---|---|
| Senagi | |
| Region | Papua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2004)[1] |
Senagi
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agg |
| Glottolog | ango1254 |
| ELP | Angor |
| Coordinates: 3°40′53″S 141°12′27″E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E | |
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′53″S 141°12′27″E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E) of Bibriari ward.[2][3]
Dialects
Dialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).[4]
Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:[5]
- Western: Mongo
- Central west: Amandan (3°41′25″S 141°10′05″E / 3.690148°S 141.168092°E), Fisi, Kwaraman (3°39′07″S 141°09′25″E / 3.651891°S 141.156937°E), Puramen (3°39′02″S 141°10′26″E / 3.650583°S 141.17401°E)
- Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari (3°39′46″S 141°12′49″E / 3.662695°S 141.213604°E), Merere, Nai (3°37′27″S 141°17′23″E / 3.624291°S 141.289758°E), Senagi (3°40′53″S 141°12′27″E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E), Unupuwai, Wamu (3°40′11″S 141°13′47″E / 3.669845°S 141.229746°E)
- Southern: Samanai
Writing system
| a | b | d | e | f | g | h | i | ɨ | k | m | mb | n | nd | ŋ | ŋg | o | p | r | s | t | u | ü | w | y |
Phonology
Angor has 18 consonants, which are:[7]
p t k b d ɡ ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ ɸ s x m n ŋ ɾ w j
Angor has 7 vowels, which are:[7]
i ɨ u e ə o a
References
- ^ Angor at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
Look up Category:Angor lemmas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.