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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 /u/.
• /k/ 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 /b, ɡ/ are pronounced as voiced stops , but are also heard as fricatives in intervocalic position.
• /r/ may have variation between a trill , a tap , or a voiced stop within vocabulary.
• Sounds /j, w/ are said to exist as a result of palatalization or labialization, but only in very few root words in word-initial position.

• Sounds /a, o/ are raised to within the environment of consonant length.

References

1. Mengen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Rath, Daniel D. (1993). Mengen phonology essentials. John M. Clifton (ed.), Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2: Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 71–98.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

External links

• "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Mengen Dictionary" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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