Nen language (Papuan)
Yam language of Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nen (or Nen Zi, Nenium, Wekamara) is a Yam language spoken in the Bimadbn village in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, with 250 speakers as of a 2002 SIL survey. It is situated between the speech communities of Nambu and Idi.
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Nen | |
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Region | Western Province (Papua New Guinea) |
Native speakers | 350 (2018)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | nqn |
Glottolog | nenn1238 |
ELP | Nen |
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Nen has unusual lexicalization patterns in its verbs. It has very few intransitive verbs, and where some verbs would be intransitive in most other languages, Nen has a class of morphologically "middle" verbs in their place. Many of the few intransitive verbs that Nen does have are positional verbs, which refer to spatial positions and postures.[2]