| Agöb | |
|---|---|
| Dabu | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province |
Native speakers | (2,400 cited 2000 census)1 |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kit |
| Glottolog | agob1244 |
 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,2 and Kawam.3 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.1
Phonology
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.4 Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/Affricate | p b | t d | ʈʂ ɖʐ | k g | |
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Fricative | s z | ||||
| Rhotic | ɾ~r | ɽ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | |||
| Lateral | l |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Near-close | ɪ̈ | ||
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Near-open | æ | ||
| Open | a |
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Kate Lynn Lindsey and Bernard Comrie. 2020. Ende (Papua New Guinea) dictionary. In: Key, Mary Ritchie & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (CLDF dataset)
Notes
Notes
- Agöb at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- "Boston University Linguist Helps Preserve an Endangered Language in Papua New Guinea". Boston University. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
- Glottolog.
- Lindsey 2019, p. 123.
Further reading
Further reading
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Illustrations of the IPA. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389, with supplementary sound recordings.
References
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Agob". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2019). Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389.
- Lindsey, Kate L. (2025). The ende way: short stories and songs from Limol. Open text collections. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-545-8.