Agöb | |
Nativename: | Dabu |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province |
Date: | 2000 census |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Papuan |
Fam1: | Trans-Fly |
Fam2: | Pahoturi |
Iso3: | kit |
Glotto: | agob1244 |
Glottorefname: | Agob-Ende-Kawam |
Glottofoot: | no |
Dia1: | Agob |
Dia2: | Ende |
Dia3: | Kawam |
Map: | Map of Pahoturi River languages.jpg |
Mapcaption: | 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. 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.
The following phonology is of the Ende dialect. Ende is a language spoken primarily in the villages of Kinkin, Limol, and Malam by 600 to 1000 speakers. Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Plosive/Affricate | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ |
Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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Near-close | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
Open | pronounced as /link/ |