Angor language

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 (3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)) of Bibriari ward.^[1][2]

Angor
Senagi
Region	Papua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages
Native speakers	1,500 (2004)[1]
Language family	Senagi Angor
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agg
Glottolog	ango1254
ELP	Angor
Coordinates: 3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)

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 (3.690148°S 141.168092°E / -3.690148; 141.168092 (Amondon)), Fisi, Kwaraman (3.651891°S 141.156937°E / -3.651891; 141.156937 (Kwaramun)), Puramen (3.650583°S 141.17401°E / -3.650583; 141.17401 (Purumun))
• Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari (3.662695°S 141.213604°E / -3.662695; 141.213604 (Bibriari)), Merere, Nai (3.624291°S 141.289758°E / -3.624291; 141.289758 (Nai 1)), Senagi (3.681265°S 141.20755°E / -3.681265; 141.20755 (Senagi)), Unupuwai, Wamu (3.669845°S 141.229746°E / -3.669845; 141.229746 (Wamu))
• Southern: Samanai

Writing system

Angor alphabet^[5]

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.^[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.

Vowels

Monophthongs

Angor has the following 7 monophthongs.^[6]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Close-mid	e[a]		o[a]
Mid		ə
Open		a

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

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/[a]	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

1. /o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence

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].