Mengen language

Mengen and Poeng are rather divergent dialects of an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

 * Both palatalization and labialization is said to occur in all consonants. Palatalized consonants only occur before back vowels, and labialized consonant sounds may occur before all vowels accept.
 * is typically pronounced as uvular, but can also be heard as a velar in free variation.
 * Gemination or length, may also occur among consonant sounds.
 * Sounds are pronounced as voiced stops, but are also heard as fricatives  in intervocalic position.
 * may have variation between a trill, a tap , or a voiced stop within vocabulary.
 * Sounds are said to exist as a result of palatalization or labialization, but only in very few root words in word-initial position.


 * Sounds are raised to  within the environment of consonant length.