Lembena language
| Lembena | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2000 census)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
leq |
| Glottolog |
lemb1266[2] |
Lembena, also known as Lembena Pii, Nanimba Pii, Uyalipa Pii, or Wapi Pii, is an Engan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Lembena has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.[3]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | g | ||
| Fricative | s | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||
| Approximant | plain | j | w | ||
| lateral | l | ʎ | |||
The sequence /di/ becomes a voiced prenasalized postalveolar affricate /ⁿd͡ʒ/ when followed by a vowel other than /i/.[3]
References
- ↑ Lembena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lembena". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Heineman, Paul (1998). "A Grammar of Lembena" (PDF).
External links
- "A Grammar of Lembena" (PDF).
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