Lembena_language

Lembena language

Lembena language

Language

Lembena, also known as Lembena Pii, Nanimba Pii, Uyalipa Pii, or Wapi Pii, is an Engan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

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Phonology

Lembena has five vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.[2]

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The sequence /di/ becomes a voiced prenasalized postalveolar affricate /ⁿd͡ʒ/ when followed by a vowel other than /i/.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Lembena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Heineman (1998)

References

  • Heineman, Paul (1998). A Grammar of Lembena (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2018-07-11 – via sil.org.

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