Angaataha
Angaataha is an Angan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Angaataha (also known as Angaatiya, Angaatiha, or Langimar) is the most divergent of the Angan languages in the Trans-New Guinea language family. It is native to the Menyanya District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. As of 2015 it was estimated that there were 2,500 speakers. Ethnic speakers of the region who speak Angaatiha are called Angaatiya. The status of the language is categorized as a level 5 developing language. Its ISO code is agm.
Like most languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, Angaatiha contains the subject-object-verb word order and utilizes the Latin script.
The Angaatiha language is notable for its usage of varying pragmatic sequencing dependent on whether a sentence contains temporal or logical information.
From Wikipedia · Angaataha language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Angaataha
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | uta* | |
| name | amp3* | |
| eye | nt* | |
| ear | atihɨri | |
| nose | mant* | |
| tooth | mank* | |
| tongue | omas* | |
| hand | ikw* | |
| head | mɨtɨho | |
| blood | ns3t3* | |
| bone | ant3* | |
| skin | amp3* | |
| knee | atot3* | |
| breast | amw3t37* | |
| liver | apo73* | |
| water | wapo'o | |
| fire | sisɨha | |
| sun | ip3* | |
| star | kaumpw* | |
| stone | naw* | |
| mountain | sis3* | |
| tree | i* | |
| leaf | is* | |
| night | ap* | |
| dog | ntami* | |
| fish | arai* | |
| louse | ak3r3* | |
| one | nas* | |
| two | ya* | |
| I | n3n3* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · anga1290 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · agm