Menya language

Not to be confused with Menia language.
Menya
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Morobe Province
Native speakers
20,000 (1998)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mcr
Glottolog meny1245[2]

Menya (Menyama, Menye) is an Angan language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonant phonemes[3]
Labial Dental Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Non-pre-nasalized plosives p t͡ʃ k q
Pre-nasalized plosives ᵐb ⁿd̪ ᶮd͡ʑ ᵑɡ ᶰq
Fricatives h
Approximant j w

References

  1. Menya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Menya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Whitehead, Carl R. (March 2006). A reference grammar of Menya, an Angan language of Papua New Guinea (PDF) (Ph.D.). University of Manitoba. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
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