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, and Kawam. 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.
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. Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.
+ Ende Consonant inventory Bilabial Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Plosive/Affricate Nasal Fricative Rhotic ~ Approximant Lateral +Ende/Agob Vowel inventoryFrontCentralBackCloseNear-closeMidNear-openOpen
See also Idi language
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)
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External links Agob (kit) Swadesh List by The Rosetta Project at the Internet Archive Faces of the Ende Language Project OLAC resources in and about the Agob language