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 / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)) of Bibriari ward.
Dialects
Dialects 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 / -3.690148; 141.168092 (Amondon)), Fisi, Kwaraman (3°39′07″S 141°09′25″E / 3.651891°S 141.156937°E / -3.651891; 141.156937 (Kwaramun)), Puramen (3°39′02″S 141°10′26″E / 3.650583°S 141.17401°E / -3.650583; 141.17401 (Purumun))
- Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari (3°39′46″S 141°12′49″E / 3.662695°S 141.213604°E / -3.662695; 141.213604 (Bibriari)), Merere, Nai (3°37′27″S 141°17′23″E / 3.624291°S 141.289758°E / -3.624291; 141.289758 (Nai 1)), Senagi (3°40′53″S 141°12′27″E / 3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)), Unupuwai, Wamu (3°40′11″S 141°13′47″E / 3.669845°S 141.229746°E / -3.669845; 141.229746 (Wamu))
- Southern: Samanai
Writing system
Angor alphabet5| 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.67
| 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:8
- /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
Monophthongs
Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.9
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e10 | o11 | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open | a |
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/12 | 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 |
Litteral notes the following allophonic processes:13
- /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].
External links
Look up Category:Angor lemmas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.References
Angor at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/agg ↩
United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup ↩
Steer, Martin (2005). Languages of the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea (PDF). Canberra: Australian National University. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/576ed271bebafbef665249c0/t/576ef4d7725e2552c3689535/1466889435280/Languages_of_the_Upper_Sepik_and_Central_New_Guinea.pdf ↩
Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services. ↩
Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/14/88/21/148821957157599136375754711921990175773/Angor.pdf ↩
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. 978-3-11-028642-7 ↩
Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/14/88/21/148821957157599136375754711921990175773/Angor.pdf ↩
Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/14/88/21/148821957157599136375754711921990175773/Angor.pdf ↩
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. 978-3-11-028642-7 ↩
Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram. ↩
Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram. ↩
/o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence ↩
Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 April 2022. https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/14/88/21/148821957157599136375754711921990175773/Angor.pdf ↩