Mangseng language

Mangseng
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	New Britain
Native speakers	(2,500 cited 1998) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Ngero–Vitiaz Southwest New Britain Arawe–Pasismanua Arawe Mangseng
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

Consonants ^[2]

		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].

Vowels ^[2]

	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

1. Mangseng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Milligan, Lloyd (1992). Mangseng Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.