Idne language

Idne
Maleu-Kilenge
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	western tip of Talasea District, West New Britain Province
Native speakers	8,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western North New Guinea Ngero–Vitiaz Vitiaz Idne
Dialects	Maleu Kilenge
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mgl
Glottolog	male1289

Idne, also known as Maleu-Kilenge, is an Austronesian language spoken by several thousand swidden farmers in the Talasea District of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	p	t d	k
Fricative	β ⟨v⟩	s	ɣ ⟨g⟩
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Approximant	w	r, l

• The fricatives /β ɣ/ are pronounced [b g] following a homorganic nasal.
• The nasals /n ŋ/ manifest as the sequences [n̥n ŋ̊ŋ] word-initially.
• /w/ only occurs intervocalically.

Vowels^[2]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid-high	e		o
Mid-low	ɛ ⟨ë⟩		ɔ ⟨ö⟩
Low		a

Additionally, Idne has the following diphthongs: /ei/, /ai/, /oi/, /ae/, /ua/, /iu/, /ɛu/, /au/, /ou/, /ɔu/.

Stress occurs on the penultimate syllable.^[2]

References

1. Idne at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Haywood, Graham (1994). Maleu Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.