Angave language
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| Angave | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 1,600 (as of 1987)[1] | |
| Language family: | Trans-New Guinea Main Section Central and Western Angan Angan Proper Angave |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | paa | |
| ISO 639-3: | aak | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Angave or Ankave is a Papuan language spoken by the approximately 1,600 (as of 1987)[1] Angave people in Kereme District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | ɑ | ||
Diphthongs: /iɑ eɑ ɑi oɑ/
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| Voiced prenasalised | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Affricate | Voiced prenasalised | ⁿdz | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | s | x | |||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
[edit] Writing system
An orthography using the Latin alphabet has been developed for Angave, but less than 5% of its speakers are literate.[1]
| A a | B b | D d | E e | G g | I i | Ɨ ɨ | J j | K k | X x | M m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /ɑ/ | /ᵐb/ | /ⁿd/ | /e/ | /ɡ/ | /i/ | /ə/ | /ⁿdz/ | /k/ | /x/ | /m/ |
| N n | Ŋ ŋ | O o | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | W w | Y y | ´ |
| /n/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /p/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /w/ | /j/ | /ʔ/ |
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Ankave", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
- Speech, Richard F. (1992). "Ankave Organised Phonology Data".
