| Angaatiha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 2,500 (2015)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agm |
| Glottolog | anga1290 |
Angaatiha (also known as Angaatiya, Angaataha, 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.[1] Ethnic speakers of the region who speak Angaatiha are called Angaatiya.[citation needed] The status of the language is categorized as a level 5 developing language.[1] Its ISO code is agm.[2]
Like most languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, Angaatiha contains the subject-object-verb word order[3] and utilizes the Latin script.[1]
The Angaatiha language is notable for its usage of varying pragmatic sequencing dependent on whether a sentence contains temporal or logical information.[4]
- ^ a b c d Angaatiha at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: agm".
- ^ Matthew S. Dryer. 2013. Order of Subject, Object and Verb. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/81, Accessed on 2018-03-09.)
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