Mengen and Poeng are rather divergent dialects of an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
- Both palatalization and labialization is said to occur in all consonants. Palatalized consonants only occur before back vowels, and labialized consonant sounds may occur before all vowels accept .
- is typically pronounced as uvular , but can also be heard as a velar in free variation.
- Gemination or length, may also occur among consonant sounds.
- Sounds are pronounced as voiced stops , but are also heard as fricatives in intervocalic position.
- may have variation between a trill , a tap , or a voiced stop within vocabulary.
- Sounds are said to exist as a result of palatalization or labialization, but only in very few root words in word-initial position.
- Sounds are raised to within the environment of consonant length.
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