| Mangseng | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1998)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mbh |
| Glottolog | mang1403 |
Mangseng is an Austronesian language of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is a distinct branch of the Arawe dialect chain.
Phonology
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | g | ||
| Fricative | β ⟨v⟩ | ð ⟨th⟩ | s | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ||
| Approximant | r, l | ||||
- The voiced plosives /b d g/ present as [ᵐp ⁿt ᵑk] word-medially.
- The cluster /nr/ is phonetically [ndr].
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid-high | e | o | |
| Mid-low | ɛ ⟨e⟩ | ɔ ⟨o⟩ | |
| Low | a |
- The phonemes /e ɛ/ and /o ɔ/ are both written as ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩ respectively.
Stress is penultimate.2
References
References
- Mangseng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Milligan, Lloyd (1992). Mangseng Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.