The Agöb languages are a group of Pahoturi languages spoken in eastern Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The language varieties include Agöb (or Dabu), Ende, and Kawam.[2] Languages in this group, along with the Idi language, form a dialect chain with the Idi and Agob dialects proper at the ends of the chain.[1]
| Agöb | |
|---|---|
| Dabu | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province |
Native speakers | 2,400 (2000 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kit |
| Glottolog | agob1244 |
 Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea | |
Phonology
editThe following phonology is of the Ende dialect. Ende is a language spoken primarily in the villages of Kinkin, Limol, and Malam by 600 to 1000 speakers.[3] Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/Affricate | p b | t d | ʈʂ ɖʐ | k g | |
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Fricative | s z | ||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | |||
| Lateral | l |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | ||
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
See also
editBibliography
edit- Kate Lynn Lindsey and Bernard Comrie. 2020. Ende (Papua New Guinea) dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (CLDF dataset)
Notes
edit- ^ a b Agöb at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Glottolog 2017.
- ^ Lindsey 2019, p. 123.
Further reading
edit- Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Illustrations of the IPA. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389, with supplementary sound recordings.
References
edit- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Agob". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2019). Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389.