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.[1][2]
Angor | |
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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 |
Dialects
editDialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).[3]
Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:[4]
- 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
editOrthography | IPA | |
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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
editConsonants
editAngor has the following 18 consonants.[6][5]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Nasal | voiced | m | n | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
voiced | b | d | g | ||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ||
Fricative | ɸ | s | x | ||
Tap/Flap | ɾ | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
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
editMonophthongs
editAngor has the following 7 monophthongs.[6]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Close-mid | e[a] | o[a] | |
Mid | ə | ||
Open | a |
Diphthongs
editPhoneme | Orthography | Gloss | |
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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 |
- ^ /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
edit- ^ a b Angor at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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
editLook up Category:Angor lemmas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.