Angan
Kratke Range
Geographic distribution	Kratke Range,Morobe Province,Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity	Angu people
Linguistic classification	Trans–New Guinea Eastern Highlands – Kratke Range Angan
Language codes
Glottolog	anga1289
Map: The Angan languages of New Guinea   The Angan languages   Other Trans–New Guinea languages   Other Papuan languages   Austronesian languages   Uninhabited

TheAngan orKratke Range languages are afamily of theTrans–New Guinea languages in the classification ofMalcolm Ross. The Angan languages are clearly valid as a family. They were first identified as such by J. Lloyd and A. Healey in 1968; Wurm (1975) classified them as Trans–New Guinea. Glottolog treats Angan as a separate or unclassified family, ignoring further evidence.

The languages are spoken in theKratke Range ofEastern Highlands Province and adjoining areas ofGulf Province andMorobe Province.^[1]

Ross (2005) classifies the languages as follows:^{[2][verify this is actually Ross's classification]}

Branch A is defined by the pronouns1SGni and2SGti.Ankave is not listed in Ross's classification. It has the1SG pronouns based onni, but not a2SG based onti.

Usher (2020) is both more agnostic and contradicting of Ross's 'A' and 'B' branches:[3]

Menya is notable for itsdyadic kinship terms (terms referring to the relationship two or more people have to each other), which are rare globally and not prevalent in Papua New Guinea (though they also exist in theOksapmin language).^[4]

Many Angan languages are covered by phonological sketches in Lloyd (1973a, b).^[5][6]

Ross (1995) reconstructs the pronouns (independent and object prefixes) as follows:^[2]

	singular	dual	plural
1st person	*nə, *ni *nə-	*nʌ, *yʌi *e(a)-	*nʌi *na-
2nd person	*gə, *ti *gə-	*kʌi	*sʌi *se-
3rd person	*gʌ *u-/*w-	? (=3SG)	*ku (=3SG)

The following basic vocabulary words are from the Trans-New Guinea database:^[7]

The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g.mɨnyagɨnya,magɨna,munakɨna for “head”) or not (e.g.sanggwa,avgwo,nyɨla for “sun”).

• Lloyd, R.G. "The Angan Language Family". In Franklin, K. editor,The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea. C-26:31-110. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973.doi:10.15144/PL-C26.31

• Angan languages
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