| Nativename | Senagi |
|---|---|
| Date | 2004 |
| Ref | e25 |
| Region | Papua New Guinea: Sandaun Province, Amanab Rural LLG, 11 villages |
| Coordinates | 3.681265°S 141.20755°E |
| Familycolor | Papuan |
| Fam 1 | Senagi |
| Iso 3 | agg |
| Glotto | ango1254 |
| Glottorefname | Angor |
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 (3.681265°S 141.20755°E) 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]
- Western: Mongo
- Central west: Amandan (3.690148°S 141.168092°E), Fisi, Kwaraman (3.651891°S 141.156937°E), Puramen (3.650583°S 141.17401°E)
- Central east: Akrani, Baribari, Bibriari (3.662695°S 141.213604°E), Merere, Nai (3.624291°S 141.289758°E), Senagi (3.681265°S 141.20755°E), Unupuwai, Wamu (3.669845°S 141.229746°E)
- Southern: Samanai
Writing system
| 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 |
- ^ Foley did not explicitly label these as close-mid, but they are written higher than /ə/ in the vowel diagram.
- ^ /o.u/ is technically a vowel sequence
Diphthongs
| Phoneme | Orthography | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Closing | /ai/ | kaiahɨ | white cockatoo |
| hai | fire | ||
| /au/ | nau | like.. | |
| bau | father | ||
| /ao/ | penao | knife | |
| sao | give.me. | ||
| /ei/ | ahei | go. | |
| /o.u/[b] | hou | . | |
| 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 |
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].
References
- ^ e25
- ^ 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. Canberra: Australian National University.
- ^ Loving, Richard and Jack Bass. 1964. Languages of the Amanab Sub-District. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services.
- ^ Litteral, Robert (1997). "Organised Phonology Data". SIL. Archived 19 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. Vol. 4. The World of Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.