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Nen Language
Nen language may refer to: *Nen language (Cameroon) The Nen language, ''Tunen'' (''Banen''), is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Aling'a to be a distinct language. Unlike all other Bantu languages The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of ... or Tunen or Banen, a Southern Bantoid language * Nen language (Papuan) or Nen Zi, a Trans-Fly–Bulaka River language See also * Nen (other) {{Dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nen Language (Cameroon)
The Nen language, ''Tunen'' (''Banen''), is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Aling'a to be a distinct language. Unlike all other Bantu languages, Nen has an Subject–object–verb, SOV word order rather than the standard Bantu Subject-Verb-Object, SVO word order. References Mbam languages Languages of Cameroon Articles citing ISO change requests {{Mbam-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nen Language (Papuan)
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. 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. Phonology The Nen phonemic inventory includes 22 consonants: */h/ occurs rarely in a few interactional and deictic words. ;Vowels: i, ɪ, e, æ, a, (ə), o, u */ã, ẽ/ occur rarely in a few interactional and deictic words. Morphology Number The realization of different grammatical meanings of Number in the noun depends on the syntactic function and case marking. The noun in the dative overtly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |