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Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #98: Menya (natlang)

Mar 3, 2014
47:23

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Quick takeaways

  • Menya has a phonetically unique inventory with prenasalized voiced stops and a six-vowel system.
  • Menya's syntax is characterized by the ability to nominalize entire clauses and the use of intricate medial verbs to encode relationships.

Deep dives

Menya is a language of Papua New Guinea with a phonologically complex Anken language family.

Menya is a language of Papua New Guinea belonging to the phonologically complex Anken language family. It is known for its more complex syllable shapes compared to other languages in the region.

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