Agob languages

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Agöb
Dabu
RegionNew Guinea
Native speakers
2,400 (2000 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Agob
  • Ende
  • Kawam
Language codes
ISO 639-3kit
Glottologagob1244
Map of Pahoturi River languages.jpg
Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea

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]

Ende

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 p b t d k g
Affricate ʈʂ ɖʐ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Fricative s z
Taps and flaps r ɽ
Approximant j w
Laterals l

See also

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b Agöb at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Glottolog 2017.
  3. ^ Lindsey 2019, p. 123.

References

  • Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Agob". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Lindsey, Kate L. (2019). Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
  • Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389.

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