Myene language
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| Myene | |
|---|---|
| Omyene | |
| Native to | Gabon |
| Region | Ogooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province |
| Ethnicity | Myene (Mpongwe, Adyumba, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo |
Native speakers | 45,000 (2007)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mye |
| Glottolog | myen1241 |
B.11[2] | |
Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,[3] though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Nasal stop | voiceless | ŋk | |||
| voiced | mb | nd | ŋg | ||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | ɡ | ||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||
| Nasal affricate | voiceless | n̠t̠ʃ | |||
| voiced | n̠d̠ʒ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t̠ʃ | |||
| voiced | d̠ʒ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ||
| voiced | β | z | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||
| Trill | ʙ | r | |||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Close-mid | e | o |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Open | a |
Notes
- ^ Myene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Bantu Classification Archived 2012-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, Ehret, 2009.
- ^ a b "PHOIBLE 2.0 -". phoible.org. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ^ le myènè en ligne sur : 'awanawintche.com', le myene en ligne : proverbes, contes, cours en audio mp3, histoires, rites et légendes o'myènè.
Bibliography
- Jacquot, A. (1976) Etude de la phonologie et de la morphologie myene, in Etudes Bantoues II', Bulletin SELAF 53, Paris, 13–79.
- Philippson, G. & G. Puech (1996) 'Tonal domains in Galwa (Bantu, B11c)'
- The Bantu languages
External links
- ELAR archive of Comparative documentation of the Myene language cluster: Adyumba, Enenga, Galwa, Mpongwe, Nkomi and Orungu
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