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Angan
Kratke Range
Geographic distribution	Kratke Range, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity	Angu people
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Eastern Highlands – Kratke Range Angan
Language codes
Glottolog	anga1289
Map: The Angan languages of New Guinea   The Angan languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

The Angan or Kratke Range languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The Angan languages are clearly valid as a family. They were first identified as such by J. Lloyd and A. Healey in 1968; Wurm (1975) classified them as Trans–New Guinea. Glottolog treats Angan as a separate or unclassified family, ignoring further evidence.

The languages are spoken in the Kratke Range of Eastern Highlands Province and adjoining areas of Gulf Province and Morobe Province.

Languages

Ross (2005) classifies the languages as follows:

• Angan
  • Angaatiha
  • Angan proper (Nuclear Angan)
    • Angan branch A:
      • Hamtai (Kapau)
      • Kamasa
      • Kawatsa
      • Menya
      • Yagwoia
    • Angan branch B:
      • Akoye (Lohiki)
      • Yipma (Baruya)
      • Safeyoka
      • Simbari
      • Susuami
      • Tainae (Ivori)

Branch A is defined by the pronouns 1SG ni and 2SG ti. Ankave is not listed in Ross's classification. It has the 1SG pronouns based on ni, but not a 2SG based on ti.

Usher (2020) is both more agnostic and contradicting of Ross's 'A' and 'B' branches:

• Kratke Range
  • Angaataha
  • Yagwoia
  • Northeast: Kamasa, Kawacha, Safeyoka, Susuami
  • Northwest: Baruya (Yipma), Simbari
  • Southeast: Hamtai (Kapau), Menya
  • Southwest: Akoye (Lohiki) – Tainae (Ivori), Angave

Menya is notable for its dyadic kinship terms (terms referring to the relationship two or more people have to each other), which are rare globally and not prevalent in Papua New Guinea (though they also exist in the Oksapmin language).

Many Angan languages are covered by phonological sketches in Lloyd (1973a, b).

Pronouns

Ross (1995) reconstructs the pronouns (independent and object prefixes) as follows:

	singular	dual	plural
1st person	*nə, *ni *nə-	*nʌ, *yʌi *e(a)-	*nʌi *na-
2nd person	*gə, *ti *gə-	*kʌi	*sʌi *se-
3rd person	*gʌ *u-/*w-	? (=3SG)	*ku (=3SG)

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from the Trans-New Guinea database:

The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. mɨnyagɨnya, magɨna, munakɨna for “head”) or not (e.g. sanggwa, avgwo, nyɨla for “sun”).

References

1. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
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   • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
3. NewGuineaWorld
4. The Oksapmin Kinship System Archived 2009-09-20 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved May 21, 2009.
5. Lloyd, Richard G. 1973a The Angan language family. In: Franklin (ed.), 31–110.
6. Lloyd, Richard G. 1973b The Angan language family: Neighbouring languages. In: Franklin (ed.), 93–94.
7. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.

• Lloyd, R.G. "The Angan Language Family". In Franklin, K. editor, The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea. C-26:31-110. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973. doi:10.15144/PL-C26.31

• Angan languages
• Languages of Papua New Guinea
• Morobe–Eastern Highlands languages