Last Updated: 2020-06-26
Background
Language Family: Trans-New Guinea / Senagi
- Angor is spoken in within the Sandaun province in Northern Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Consonants
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Place of Articulation
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Manner of Articulation
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Labial
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Alveolar
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Palatal
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Velar
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Stops
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p b ᵐb
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t d ⁿd
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k ɡ ᵑɡ
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Fricatives
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ɸ
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s
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x
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Nasals
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m
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n
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ŋ
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Flaps
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ɾ
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Approximants
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w
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j
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Note: Cells that contain three phonemes are ordered voiceless, voiced, and prenasalized.
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Vowels
- Vowel harmony is present in Angor (Litteral 2008, 25).
- Diphthongs can also be realized as vowel sequences (Litteral 1997, 4), so I have chosen not to represent them in the transcription.
- Based on the description of stress by Litteral (2008), such that the phonemic mid central vowel present in the language occurs only in unstressed syllables (pp. 23-24), I have chosen to stick with their analysis of using /ə/.
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Front
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Central
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Back
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High
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i
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ɨ
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u
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Mid
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e
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ə
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o
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Low
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a
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Alphabet
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Grapheme
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Phoneme
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a
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/a/
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b
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/b/
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d
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/d/
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e
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/e/
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f
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/ɸ/
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g
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/ɡ/
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h
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/x/
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i
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/i/
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ɨ
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/ə/
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k
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/k/
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m
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/m/
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n
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/n/
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o
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/o/
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p
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/p/
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r
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/ɾ/
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s
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/s/
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t
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/t/
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u
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/u/
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ü
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/ɨ/
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w
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/w/
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y
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/j/
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Multigraph
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mb
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/ᵐb/
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nd
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/ⁿd/
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ng; ŋ
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/ŋ/
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ngg; ŋg
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/ᵑɡ/
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Syllable Structure
- Syllables in Angor have the following structures (Litteral 1997, 4):
Lenition Rules
- /ɸ/ and /x/ can be voiced word-medially (Litteral 1997, 4).
Misc. Rules
- /ɾ/ may be realized as retroflex following /a/ (Litteral 1997, 4).
- Unstressed word-final vowels are often deleted following either voiceless stops, nasals (including pre-nasals), or /x/ (ibid.).
References
Litteral, Robert L. 1997. “Angor Organised Phonology Data.”
———. 2008. “Features of Angor Discourse.” PhD thesis, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.