Mengen language

Mengen
Mengen
Poeng
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	New Britain
Native speakers	(8,400 cited 1982)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Ngero–Vitiaz Mengen languages Mengen; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Mengen; Poeng;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mee
Glottolog	meng1267

Mengen and Poeng are rather divergent dialects of an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal	Uvular
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	(k)	q
Plosive	voiced	b	(d)	g
Fricative			s
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Glide		(w)		(j)

Both palatalization and labialization [ʲ, ʷ] is said to occur in all consonants. Palatalized consonants only occur before back vowels, and labialized consonant sounds may occur before all vowels accept /u/.
/k/ is typically pronounced as uvular [q], but can also be heard as a velar [k] in free variation.
Gemination or length, may also occur among consonant sounds.
Sounds /b, ɡ/ are pronounced as voiced stops [b, ɡ], but are also heard as fricatives [β, ɣ] in intervocalic position.
/r/ may have variation between a trill [r], a tap [ɾ], or a voiced stop [d] within vocabulary.
Sounds /j, w/ are said to exist as a result of palatalization or labialization, but only in very few root words in word-initial position.

Sounds /a, o/ are raised to [ʌ, o̝] within the environment of consonant length.^[2]

^ Mengen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Rath, Daniel D. (1993). Mengen phonology essentials. John M. Clifton (ed.), Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 71–98.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

"Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
"Mengen Dictionary" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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