| Myene | |
| Nativename: | Omyene |
| States: | Gabon |
| Region: | Ogooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province |
| Ethnicity: | Myene (Mpongwe, Adyumba, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo |
| Speakers: | 45,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam4: | Bantoid |
| Fam5: | Bantu (Zone B) |
| Fam6: | Kele–Tsogo? |
| Fam7: | Tsogo? |
| Dia1: | Mpongwe |
| Dia2: | Galwa |
| Dia3: | Nkomi |
| Iso3: | mye |
| Glotto: | myen1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Myene |
| Guthrie: | B.11 |
Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,[1] though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal stop | voiceless | ŋk | ||||
| voiced | mb | nd | ŋg | |||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | ɡ | |||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Nasal affricate | voiceless | n̠t̠ʃ | ||||
| voiced | n̠d̠ʒ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t̠ʃ | ||||
| voiced | d̠ʒ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | |||
| voiced | β | z | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Trill | ʙ | r | ||||
| Close | i | u | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |