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
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Non-pre-nasalized plosives | p | t̪ | t͡ʃ | k | q | |
| Pre-nasalized plosives | ᵐb | ⁿd̪ | ᶮd͡ʑ | ᵑɡ | ᶰq | |
| Fricatives | h | |||||
| Approximant | j | w |
References
- ↑ Menya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Menya". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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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