| Ankave | |
| Region: | Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 1,500 |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Angan |
| Fam3: | Southwest |
| Script: | Latin |
| Iso3: | aak |
| Glotto: | anka1246 |
| Glottorefname: | Ankave |
| Notice: | IPA |
Ankave or Angave is a Papuan language spoken by the approximately 1,600 Angave people in Kerema District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| prenasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Affricate | prenasal | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
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 | J j | K k | X x | M m | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronounced as //ɑ// | pronounced as //ᵐb// | pronounced as //ⁿd// | pronounced as //e// | pronounced as //ɡ// | pronounced as //i// | pronounced as //ə// | pronounced as //ⁿdz// | pronounced as //k// | pronounced as //x// | pronounced as //m// | |
| N n | O o | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | W w | Y y | ´ | ||
| pronounced as //n// | pronounced as //ŋ// | pronounced as //o// | pronounced as //p// | pronounced as //ɾ// | pronounced as //s// | pronounced as //t// | pronounced as //u// | pronounced as //w// | pronounced as //j// | pronounced as //ʔ// |