Social:Angan languages
| Angan | |
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| Kratke Range | |
| Ethnicity | Angu people |
| Geographic distribution | Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Trans–New Guinea
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| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | anga1289[1] |
 Map: The Angan languages of New Guinea
The Angan languages
Other Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
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The Angan languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The Angan languages are clearly valid as a family. They were first identified as such by J. Lloyd and A. Healey in 1968; Wurm (1975) classified them as Trans–New Guinea. Glottlog treats Angan as a separate or unclassified family, pending further evidence.
The Angan languages are spoken in Eastern Highlands Province and adjoining areas of Gulf Province and Morobe Province.[2]
Languages
- Angan family:
- Angaatiha language
- Angan proper (Nuclear Angan)
- A (pronouns ni, ti): Hamtai (Kapau), Kamasa, Kawatsa, Menya, Yagwoia
- B: Akoye (Lohiki), Yipma (Baruya), Safeyoka, Simbari, Susuami, Tainae (Ivori), Ankave[3]
Menya is notable for its dyadic kinship terms (terms referring to the relationship two or more people have to each other), which are rare globally and not prevalent in Papua New Guinea (though they also exist in the Oksapmin language).[4]
Pronouns
Pronouns (independent and object prefixes) are:
sg du pl 1 *nə, *ni
*nə-*nʌ, *yʌi
*e(a)-*nʌi
*na-2 *gə, *ti
*gə-*kʌi *sʌi
*se-3 *gʌ
*u-/*w-?
(=3sg)*ku
(=3sg)
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Angan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/anga1289.
- ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Dallas: SIL International. https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages.
- ↑ Ankave is not listed in Ross's classification. It has the 1sg pronouns based on ni, but not a 2sg based on ti.
- ↑ The Oksapmin Kinship System , retrieved May 21, 2009.
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