Angaataha language
Angaatiha (also known as Angaatiya, Angaataha, 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. Ethnic speakers of the region who speak Angaatiha are called Angaatiya. The status of the language is categorized as a level 5 developing language. Its ISO code is agm.
| Angaatiha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 2,500 (2015) |
Trans–New Guinea
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Writing system | Latin script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agm |
| Glottolog | anga1290 |
Like most languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, Angaatiha contains the subject-object-verb word order and utilizes the Latin script.
The Angaatiha language is notable for its usage of varying pragmatic sequencing dependent on whether a sentence contains temporal or logical information.
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