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Angor language

Angor language

Senagi language of Papua New Guinea


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 (3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)) of Bibriari ward.[1][2]

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Dialects

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

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

Writing system

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Phonology

Consonants

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

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Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:[5]

  • /ɸ/ is voiced [β] word medially.
  • /x/ is voiced [ɣ] word medially.
  • /ɾ/ is sometimes retroflexed after /a/.
  • Final unstressed vowels, especially /ə/, tend to be elided in speech after voiceless plosives /p t k/, prenasalized plosives /ᵐb ⁿd/, and /m n ŋ x/. Prenasalized consonants are pronounced voiceless and aspirated in this position.

Vowels

Monophthongs

Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.[6]

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  1. Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram.

Diphthongs

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  1. /o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence

Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:[5]

  • /e/ tends to be phonetically a glide [eɪ̯] in the medial position (e.g., tefɨ [teɪ̯βə] 'tongue').
  • /o/ is generally [ɔ] before [ⁿd] and [ɾ].

References

  1. Angor at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  3. Steer, Martin (2005). Languages of the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea (PDF). Canberra: Australian National University.
  4. Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
  5. Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022.
  6. 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.

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