Ankave language
Ankave | |
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Region | Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (1,600 cited 1987)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | aak |
Glottolog | anka1246 |
Ankave or Angave is a Papuan language spoken by the approximately 1,600 (as of 1987)[2] in Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology[]
Vowels[]
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Low | ɑ |
Diphthongs: /iɑ eɑ ɑi oɑ/
Consonants[]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | Voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Voiced prenasalised | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
Affricate | Voiced prenasalised | ⁿdz | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Fricative | Voiceless | s | x | |||
Approximant | j | w |
Writing system[]
An orthography using the Latin script has been developed for Angave, but less than 5% of its speakers are literate.[2]
A a | B b | D d | E e | G g | I i | Ɨ ɨ | J j | K k | X x | M m |
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/ɑ/ | /ᵐb/ | /ⁿd/ | /e/ | /ɡ/ | /i/ | /ə/ | /ⁿdz/ | /k/ | /x/ | /m/ |
N n | Ŋ ŋ | O o | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | W w | Y y | ´ |
/n/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /p/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /w/ | /j/ | /ʔ/ |
Notes[]
- ^ Ankave at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ethnologue.
- Speece, Richard F. (1992). "Ankave Organised Phonology Data". Cite journal requires
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Further reading[]
- Speece, Richard F. 1988. Phonological processes affecting segments in Angave. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 17(1/2): 1–139.
External links[]
For a list of words relating to Ankave language, see the Ankave language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Categories:
- Languages of Gulf Province
- Angan languages