Mangseng language
Appearance
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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Mangseng | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1998)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mbh |
Glottolog | mang1403 |
Mangseng is an Austronesian language of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is a distinct branch of the Arawe dialect chain.
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
voiced | b | d | g | ||
Fricative | β ⟨v⟩ | ð ⟨th⟩ | s | ||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||
Approximant | r, l |
- The voiced plosives /b d g/ present as [ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk] word-medially.
- The cluster /nr/ is phonetically [ndr].
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid-high | e | o | |
Mid-low | ɛ ⟨e⟩ | ɔ ⟨o⟩ | |
Low | a |
- The phonemes /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ are both written as ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩ respectively.
Stress is penultimate.[2]
References
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Ngero–Vitiaz |
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