Angor (Anggor) 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 () of Bibriari ward.
Dialects Dialects are Wai (Central Anggor) and Samanai (Southern Anggor).
Loving and Bass (1964) list these Anggor dialects and their villages:Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
Western: Mongo Central west: Amandan (), Fisi, Kwaraman (), Puramen () Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari (), Merere, Nai (), Senagi (), Unupuwai, Wamu () Southern: Samanai
Writing system + Angor alphabet 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.
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Nasal Plosive Fricative Tap/Flap Approximant
Litteral notes the following allophonic processes: /ɸ/ is voiced [] word medially. /x/ is voiced [] 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. Front Central Back Close Close-mid Mid Open
Diphthongs Phoneme Orthography Gloss Closing/ai/ white cockatoo fire/au/ like.. father/ao/ knife give.me. /ei/ go./o.u/ . mosquitoOpening/oa/ shell there Height-harmonic/ui/ fingernail papaya/oe/ sugarcane type of banana stone
Litteral notes the following allophonic processes: /e/ tends to be phonetically a glide [eɪ̯] in the medial position (e.g., [teɪ̯βə] 'tongue'). /o/ is generally [ɔ] before [ⁿd] and [ɾ].
References
External links
Angor Grammar Sketch PARADISEC archive items for Angor language