Agob languages

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.

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)

Notes

Further reading

References

• Lindsey, Kate L. 2025. The Ende way: Short stories and songs from Limol prepared with the Ende Language Committee. (Open Text Collections 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17259528

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/541

External links

• Faces of the Ende Language Project
• OLAC resources in and about the Agob language