Angaatiha

WALS coordinates: 7° 13′ S, 146° 15′ E

spoken in Papua New Guinea

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Angaataha
Routledge:
  • Angaataha
Other:
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately large
    Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone Simple tone system
    Absence of Common Consonants No fricatives
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Lexicon
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 7-7.5
    Green and Blue Green vs. blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow