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 in free variation among speech.
- /ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ̠/ are heard as prenasal voiceless stops when in word-final positions.
- /k̠/ is mostly heard as a glottal stop in word-final positions.
- /l/ may be heard as fricativized or more fronted as in word-final position.
Vowels