Agob languages

Agöb
Agöb
Dabu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morehead Rural LLG, Western Province
Native speakers	(2,400 cited 2000 census)
Language family	Trans-Fly Pahoturi Agöb; ;
Dialects	Agob; Ende; Kawam;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kit
Glottolog	agob1244
	Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea

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,^[2] and Kawam.^[3] 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.^[1]

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.^[4] Ende's phoneme inventory includes 19 consonants and 7 vowels.

Ende Consonant inventory
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Plosive/Affricate	p b	t d	ʈʂ ɖʐ		k g
Nasal	m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Fricative		s z
Rhotic		ɾ~r	ɽ
Approximant				j	w
Lateral		l

Ende/Agob Vowel inventory
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close		ɪ̈
Mid	e	ə	o
Near-open	æ
Open		a

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

1 2 Agöb at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ "Boston University Linguist Helps Preserve an Endangered Language in Papua New Guinea". Boston University. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
↑ Glottolog.
↑ Lindsey 2019, p. 123.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Agob". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Lindsey, Kate L. (2019). Ghost Elements in Ende Phonology (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
Lindsey, Kate L. (2021). "Ende". Journal of the International Phonetic Association: 1–21. doi:10.1017/S0025100320000389.
Lindsey, Kate L. (2025). The ende way: short stories and songs from Limol. Open text collections. Berlin: Language Science Press. ISBN 978-3-96110-545-8.

External links

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[e18-1] 1 2 Agöb at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Boston University Linguist Helps Preserve an Endangered Language in Papua New Guinea". Boston University. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

[FOOTNOTEGlottolog-3] Glottolog.

[FOOTNOTELindsey2019123-4] Lindsey 2019, p. 123.

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