Nen language (Papuan)
| Nen | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Province (Papua New Guinea) |
Native speakers | 250 (2002)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nqn – Nen |
| Glottolog |
nenn1238[2] |
Nen, or Nen Zi, is a Papuan language spoken in the Bimadbn village in 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" that denote spatial positions and postures.[3]
References
- ↑ Nen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nen". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Evans, Nicholas (2014). "Positional Verbs in Nen". Oceanic Linguistics 53 (2): 225–255.