Angaataha language

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Angaataha
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
EthnicityAngataaya
Native speakers
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Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3agm
Glottologanga1290
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Angaataha (also known as Angaatiya, Angaatiha, 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[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed] 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]

Temporal and logical sequencing

The Angaatiha language features two forms of pragmatic sequencing, each respectively reserved for situations that require conveying temporal and logical information. Both temporal and logical sequencing have been described as having either "loose" and "tight" relationships between sentences. Much like that of the Kâte language, also spoken in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, "tight" and "loose" sequencing in Angaatiha holds a relationship of "continuing pragmatic effects from one event to the next" versus "a lingering pragmatic effect that continues indefinitely".[4]

Sample text

Translated sample in Angaataha of the Book of Genesis of the Bible:

Angaatiha:

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English:

  • "In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep water. The spirit of God was hovering over the water. Then God said, "Let there be light!" So there was light. God saw the light was good. So God separated the light from the darkness. God named the light "day", and the darkness he named "night". There was evening, then morning, the first day. Then God said, "Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water". So God made the horizon and separated the water above and below the horizon. And so it was. God named what was above the horizon "sky". There was evening, then morning, a second day."

References

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  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference e25 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: agm".
  3. ^ 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.)
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grimes, Joseph Evans (1975). The Thread of Discourse. Walter de Gruyter. p. 40. ISBN 9789027931641.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Angaatiha Language Sample".

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