Angor language

Angor
Angor
Senagi
Region	Papua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages
Native speakers	1,500 (2004)
Language family	Senagi Angor;
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

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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.^[1]^[2]

Dialects

Dialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).^[3]

Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:^[4]

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.

Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram.

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].

^ ^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.