| Ankave | |
|---|---|
| Region | Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Native speakers | 1,500 (2014) |
| Language family | Trans–New Guinea
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| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aak |
| Glottolog | anka1246 |
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Ankave or Angave is a Papuan language spoken by the approximately 1,600 (as of 1987) Angave people in Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | ɑ | ||
Diphthongs: /iɑ eɑ ɑi oɑ/
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Affricate | prenasal | ⁿdz | ||||
| Fricative | s | x | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
Writing system
An orthography using the Latin script has been developed for Angave, but less than 5% of its speakers are literate.
| A a | B b | D d | E e | G g | I i | Ɨ ɨ | J j | K k | X x | M m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /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 (25th ed., 2022)
- Speece, Richard F. (1992). "Ankave Organised Phonology Data".
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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
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