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Language
Mumeng is a
dialect chain of the
Austronesian family in
Morobe Province ,
Papua New Guinea . Dambi–Kumalu and Patep–Zenag–Gorakor have a degree of
mutual intelligibility .
Kapin may belong as well.
Phonology
The following is of the Patep dialect:
[2]
Consonants
The prenasal affricate /ⁿdz/ may also fluctuate to a prenasal fricative [ⁿz] in free variation among speech.
/ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ̠/ are heard as prenasal voiceless stops [ᵐp, ⁿt, ᵑk̠] when in word-final positions.
/k̠/ is mostly heard as a glottal stop [ʔ] in word-final positions.
/l/ may be heard as fricativized [l̝] or more fronted as [l̟] in word-final position.
[2]
Vowels
References
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Dambi at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kumalu at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Patep (Ptep, Dengalu) at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Zenag (Zenang) at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Gorakor at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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a
b Lauck, Linda M.; Adams, Karen L. (1975). A tentative phonemic statement of Patep . In Richard Loving (ed.), Phonologies of five Austronesian languages: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 71–128.
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
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