Mumeng language

Mumeng is a dialect chain of the Austronesian family in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dambi–Kumalu and Patep–Zenag–Gorakor have a degree of mutual intelligibility. Kapin may belong as well.

Phonology

The following is of the Patep dialect:

Consonants

• The prenasal affricate /ⁿdz/ may also fluctuate to a prenasal fricative [ⁿz] in free variation among speech.
• /ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ̠/ are heard as prenasal voiceless stops [ᵐp, ⁿt, ᵑkÌ ] when in word-final positions.
• /kÌ / is mostly heard as a glottal stop [ʔ] in word-final positions.
• /l/ may be heard as fricativized [l̝] or more fronted as [l̟] in word-final position.

Vowels

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