Mumeng language
Mumeng is a dialect chain of the Austronesian family in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Dambi–Kumalu and Patep–Zenag–Gorakor have a degree of mutual intelligibility. Kapin may belong as well.
Phonology
The following is of the Patep dialect:
Consonants
- The prenasal affricate /ⁿdz/ may also fluctuate to a prenasal fricative [ⁿz] in free variation among speech.
- /ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ̠/ are heard as prenasal voiceless stops [ᵐp, ⁿt, ᵑk̠] when in word-final positions.
- /k̠/ is mostly heard as a glottal stop [ʔ] in word-final positions.
- /l/ may be heard as fricativized [l̝] or more fronted as [l̟] in word-final position.