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Menya

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: mcr

Population	20,000 (1998 SIL).
Region	Morobe Province, Menyamya District, north Tauri River area and tributaries.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 704
Alternate names	Menyama, Menye
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Angan, Nuclear Angan
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Bible portions: 1995.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HODGKIN, Brian, author. 1992. "Menya literateness survey."

WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 1987. "The category ‘relevance’ in Menya verbal morphology."

WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 1991. "Tense, aspect, mood and modality: verbal morphology in Menya."

WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 2004. A reference grammar of Menya, an Angan language of Papua New Guinea.  

WHITEHEAD, Carl, author. Available: 1999; Created: 1992. Menya Organised Phonology Data.  

Vernacular Publications

HIV ŋqätä esiŋqätä näqŋqä hepŋqä awä ätqi = HIV na AIDS toksave. 2008.