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Mengen

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: mee

Population	8,400 (1982 SIL).
Region	East New Britain Province, Pomio District, Jacquinot Bay and inland. 20 villages.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 12, reference number 586
Alternate names	Poeng
Dialects	North Coast Mengen (Maeng), South Coast Mengen (Poeng), Bush Mengen (Inland Mengen, Longueinga). Some linguists separate Poeng (Mengen 1, Bush Mengen) and Maeng (Mengen 2, Orford, Maenge) into 2 languages.
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Ngero-Vitiaz, Vitiaz, Mengen
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 2003.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO. Fishermen; swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Madden, Fred, compiler. Available: 2006; Created: 2002. Mengen dictionary.  

Madden, Fred. Available: 2009; Created: 2000. Logical relations in Mengen.  

Madden, Fred. Available: 2009; Created: 2001. Discourse considerations in Mengen.  

Madden, Fred. Available: 2009; Created: 2002. Mengen texts corpus.  

Madden, Fred. Available: 2009; Created: n.d.. Mengen interlinearized texts.  

Rath, Dan. Available: 2009; Created: 1991. Mengen dialect survey.  

Rath, Daniel D. 1980. "The languages and communities of the Mengen region."

Rath, Daniel D. 1988. "The big man in Mengen society."

Rath, Daniel D. 1993. "Mengen phonology essentials."  

Vernacular Publications

Lau e pala kapunu e nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea lima. 1992.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau e kapunu. 1995.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea lima ba kena. 1992.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea lima ba lua. 1992.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea lima ba mologi. 1992.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea mologi. 1992.

Lau e pala nga kalaunge goeme ta kelang, lau ea tugulu. 1992.