| Language name: | ANGAATIHA |
| UPSID number: | 8627 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Papuan, Trans-New Guinea |
| This language has | 21 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.492661810 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k ? tS m n nj N l[ j w i "e a "o u a: "@S ai au |
| Comment: | Angaatiha is analyzed as having 3 tones - high, low, and falling. Huisman et al. treat nj as a cluster, but it is the only Cj cluster. /w/ clusters with /p,m,k,?/ - these are treated as two-consonant clusters. |
| Source(s): | Huisman, R. 1973. Angaataha verb morphology. Linguistics 110:43-54. Huisman, R., Huisman, R., Lloyd, J. 1981. Angaatiha syllable patterns. In P.M. Healey (ed.), Angan Languages are Different: Four Phonologies. Language Data, Asian-Pacific Series 12, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Huntington Beach: 51-62. Huisman, R., Lloyd, J. 1981. Angaatiha tone, stress, and length. In P.M Healey (ed.), Angan Languages are Different: Four Phonologies. Language Data, Asian-Pacific Series 12, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Huntington Beach: 63-82. |