Agob languages
{{Short description|Pahoturi language group of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Agöb
|nativename=Dabu
|states=Papua New Guinea
|region=Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province
|speakers={{sigfig|2440|2}}
|date=2000 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Trans-Fly
|fam2=Pahoturi
|iso3=kit
|glotto=agob1244
|glottorefname=Agob-Ende-Kawam
|glottofoot=no
|dia1=Agob
|dia2=Ende
|dia3=Kawam
|map=Map of Pahoturi River languages.jpg
|mapcaption=Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea
}}
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.{{sfn|Glottolog|2017|ignore-err=yes}} 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.
Phonology
The 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.{{sfn|Lindsey|2019|p=123}} Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;
|+ Ende Consonant inventory |
| ! Bilabial
! Alveolar ! Palatal ! Velar |
|---|
| Plosive/Affricate
| {{IPA link|p}} {{IPA link|b}} || {{IPA link|t}} {{IPA link|d}} || {{IPA link|ʈʂ}} {{IPA link|ɖʐ}}|| || {{IPA link|k}} {{IPA link|g}} |
| Nasal
| {{IPA link|m}}|| {{IPA link|n}}|| || {{IPA link|ɲ}}|| {{IPA link|ŋ}} |
| Fricative
| || {{IPA link|s}} {{IPA link|z}}|| || || |
| Rhotic
| || {{IPA link|ɾ}}~{{IPA link|r}}|| {{IPA link|ɽ}}|| || |
| Approximant
| || || || {{IPA link|j}}|| {{IPA link|w}} |
| Lateral
| || {{IPA link|l}}|| || || |
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;
|+Ende/Agob Vowel inventory ! !Back |
| Close
|{{IPA link|i}} | |{{IPA link|u}} |
|---|
| Near-close
| |{{IPA link|ɪ̈}} | |
| Mid
|{{IPA link|e}} |{{IPA link|ə}} |{{IPA link|o}} |
| Near-open
|{{IPA link|æ}} | | |
| Open
| |{{IPA link|a}} | |
See also
Bibliography
- Kate Lynn Lindsey and Bernard Comrie. 2020. [https://ids.clld.org/contributions/842 Ende (Papua New Guinea) dictionary]. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. ([https://zenodo.org/record/5127829 CLDF dataset])
Notes
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Further reading
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- {{Cite JIPA|author=Lindsey, Kate L.|title=Ende|pages=1–21|doi=10.1017/S0025100320000389|onlinedate=2021-04-15|soundfiles=yes}}
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References
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- {{Glottolog|agob1244|Agob}}
- {{Cite thesis |last=Lindsey |first=Kate L. |title=Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology |degree=PhD |url=https://purl.stanford.edu/ys194fp6634 |language=en |date=2019 |institution=Stanford University}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Lindsey |first=Kate L. |date=2021 |title=Ende |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |language=en |pages=1–21 |doi=10.1017/S0025100320000389}}
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External links
- [https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/faces-ende-language-project Faces of the Ende Language Project]
- [http://www.language-archives.org/language/kit OLAC resources in and about the Agob language]
{{Papuan languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
Category:Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
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