Angor language
{{Short description|Senagi language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Angor
|nativename=Senagi
|speakers={{sigfig|1500|2}}
|date=2004
|ref = e25
|region=Papua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages
|coordinates={{coord|-3.681265|141.20755|type:city_region:PG|name=Senagi}}
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Senagi
|iso3=agg
|glotto=ango1254
|glottorefname=Angor
}}
{{GeoGroupTemplate}}
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 ({{coord|-3.681265|141.20755|type:city_region:PG|name=Senagi}}) of Bibriari ward.{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018}}
Dialects
Dialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).{{Cite book|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/576ed271bebafbef665249c0/t/576ef4d7725e2552c3689535/1466889435280/Languages_of_the_Upper_Sepik_and_Central_New_Guinea.pdf|title=Languages of the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea|last=Steer|first=Martin|year=2005|location=Canberra|publisher=Australian National University}}
Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
- Western: Mongo
- Central west: Amandan ({{coord|-3.690148|141.168092|type:city_region:PG|name=Amondon}}), Fisi, Kwaraman ({{coord|-3.651891|141.156937|type:city_region:PG|name=Kwaramun}}), Puramen ({{coord|-3.650583|141.17401|type:city_region:PG|name=Purumun}})
- Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari ({{coord|-3.662695|141.213604|type:city_region:PG|name=Bibriari}}), Merere, Nai ({{coord|-3.624291|141.289758|type:city_region:PG|name=Nai 1}}), Senagi ({{coord|-3.681265|141.20755|type:city_region:PG|name=Senagi}}), Unupuwai, Wamu ({{coord|-3.669845|141.229746|type:city_region:PG|name=Wamu}})
- Southern: Samanai
Writing system
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! colspan="2" | 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.{{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |author-link=William A. Foley |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=197–432 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}}
:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |
| colspan="2" |
! Labial ! Alveolar ! Palatal ! Velar |
|---|
| rowspan="1" | Nasal
! {{small|voiced}} | {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|n}} | | {{IPA link|ŋ}} |
| rowspan="3" | Plosive
! {{small|voiceless}} | {{IPA link|p}} | {{IPA link|t}} | | {{IPA link|k}} |
| {{small|voiced}}
| {{IPA link|b}} | {{IPA link|d}} | | {{IPA link|g}} |
| {{small|prenasalized}}
| {{IPA link|ᵐb}} | {{IPA link|ⁿd}} | | {{IPA link|ᵑɡ}} |
| colspan="2" | Fricative
| {{IPA link|ɸ}} | {{IPA link|s}} | | {{IPA link|x}} |
| colspan="2" | Tap/Flap
| | {{IPA link|ɾ}} | | |
| colspan="2" | Approximant
| {{IPA link|w}} | | {{IPA link|j}} | |
Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:
- /ɸ/ is voiced [{{IPA link|β}}] word medially.
- /x/ is voiced [{{IPA link|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.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! ! Front ! Central ! Back |
| Close
| {{IPA link|i}} | {{IPA link|ɨ}} | {{IPA link|u}} |
|---|
| Close-mid
| {{IPA link|e}}{{efn|name=close-mid|Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram.}} | | {{IPA link|o}}{{efn|name=close-mid}} |
| Mid
| | {{IPA link|ə}} | |
| Open
| |{{IPA link|a}} | |
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==Diphthongs==
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
! ! Phoneme ! Orthography ! Gloss |
| rowspan="9" | Closing
| rowspan="2"|/ai/ | {{lang|agg|kaiahɨ}} | white cockatoo |
|---|
| {{lang|agg|hai}}
| fire |
| rowspan="2"|/au/
| {{lang|agg|nau}} | like.{{gcl|V}}.{{gcl|COMP}} |
| {{lang|agg|bau}}
| father |
| rowspan="2"|/ao/
| {{lang|agg|penao}} | knife |
| {{lang|agg|sao}}
| give.me.{{gcl|IMP}} |
| /ei/
| {{lang|agg|ahei}} | go.{{gcl|3FPL}} |
| rowspan="2"|/o.u/{{efn|/o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence}}
| {{lang|agg|hou}} | {{gcl|COMPL}}.{{gcl|3MPL}} |
| {{lang|agg|tɨ mouyanɨ}}
| mosquito |
| rowspan="2"|Opening
| rowspan="2"|/oa/ | {{lang|agg|koako}} | shell |
| {{lang|agg|gogoa}}
| there |
| rowspan="5" | Height-harmonic
| rowspan="2"|/ui/ | {{lang|agg|mbuifɨ}} | fingernail |
| {{lang|agg|yikui}}
| papaya |
| rowspan="3"|/oe/
| {{lang|agg|hoeyembɨ}} | sugarcane |
| {{lang|agg|baboe}}
| type of banana |
| {{lang|agg|nɨmoei}}
| stone |
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Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:
- /e/ tends to be phonetically a glide [eɪ̯] in the medial position (e.g., {{lang|agg|tefɨ}} [teɪ̯βə] 'tongue').
- /o/ is generally [ɔ] before [ⁿd] and [ɾ].
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Wiktionary|Category:Angor lemmas}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180708203711/http://www-01.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/92847459940/Angor_Discourse_Features.pdf Angor Grammar Sketch]
- PARADISEC archive [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/items/search?language_id=129&search=Angor&utf8=%E2%9C%93 items for Angor language]
{{Papuan languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}