Lembena language
Lembena, also known as Lembena Pii, Nanimba Pii, Uyalipa Pii, or Wapi Pii, is an Engan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Lembena | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2000 census)[1] |
Engan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | leq |
Glottolog | lemb1266 [2] |
Phonology
Lembena has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.[3]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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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]
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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.
- Heineman, Paul (1998). "A Grammar of Lembena" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2018-07-11. Cite journal requires
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External links
- "A Grammar of Lembena" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2018-07-11. Cite journal requires
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