Agob languages

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.^[2] 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.^[1]

Agöb
Dabu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province
Native speakers	(2,400 cited 2000 census)[1]
Language family	Trans-Fly Pahoturi Agöb
Dialects	Agob Ende Kawam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kit
Glottolog	agob1244
Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea

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.^[3] Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.

Ende Consonant inventory

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Plosive/Affricate	p b	t d	ʈʂ ɖʐ		k g
Nasal	m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Fricative		s z
Rhotic		ɾ~r	ɽ
Approximant				j	w
Lateral		l

Ende/Agob Vowel inventory

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close		ɪ̈
Mid	e	ə	o
Near-open	æ
Open		a

See also

• Idi language

Bibliography

• Kate Lynn Lindsey and Bernard Comrie. 2020. Ende (Papua New Guinea) dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (CLDF dataset)