Ankave language
Ankave or Angave is a Papuan language spoken by the approximately 1,600 (as of 1987)[3] Angave people in Kereme District, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Vowels
Diphthongs: /iɑ eɑ ɑi oɑ/
Consonants
Writing system
An orthography using the Latin script has been developed for Angave, but less than 5% of its speakers are literate.[3]
| A a | B b | D d | E e | G g | I i | Ɨ ɨ | J j | K k | X x | M m |
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| /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 (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ankave". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 Ethnologue.
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