Angor language

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]

Angor
Senagi
RegionPapua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages
Native speakers
1,500 (2004)[1]
Senagi
  • Angor
Language codes
ISO 639-3agg
Glottologango1254
ELPAngor
Coordinates: 3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)

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
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

Consonants

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 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.

Monophthongs

Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.[6]

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

Diphthongs
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/[lower-alpha 1] 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]

  • /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
  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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