Myene is a Bantu language spoken by about 46,000 people in western Gabon, particularly in the provinces of Moyen-Ogooué (Middle-Ogooue) and Ogooué-Maritime. Myene is also described as a cluster of closely-related varieties of Bantu known individually as Adyumba, Enenga, Mpongwe, Orungu, Galwa and Nkomi.
Myene was first documented in 1602 by Pieter de Marées, a Dutch trader and explorer. Since then, quite a few other people have written about the language. An orthography was devised by André Raponda Walker (1871-1968), a Gabonese author, ethnography, priest and missiony, who published a dictionary and grammar of the Mpongwe variety of the language in 1934. Other orthographies are available. Myene is used to some extent in the media and in education in Myene-speaking areas.
Download alphabet charts for Myene (Excel)
Details of Myene alphabet and pronunciation provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Source: Parler l'Omyènè (langue du Gabon) : phrases affirmatives et négatives au présent
Information about Myene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myene_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myènè_(langue)
https://worldschoolbooks.com/the-languages-of-gabon/
https://hub.localazy.com/en/languages/mye-myene
http://www.language-archives.org/language/mye
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/myen1241
https://inongo-ayile.com/apprendre-a-lire-et-ecrire-lomyene
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