Nen (or Nen Zi, Nenium, Wekamara) is a Yam language spoken in the Bimadbn village in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, with 250 speakers as of a 2002 SIL survey.
[2] The Nen phonemic inventory includes 22 consonants:[3] The realization of different grammatical meanings of Number in the noun depends on the syntactic function and case marking.
In a trivalent predicate, the indirect object argument (semantically, recipient) is cross-referenced in the verb by the undergoer prefix.
[4]: 1067–68 The causative is got by the adding of the meaning 'cause (motion/trajectory) through sustained contact (carrying, leading etc.)'
Prefix /wa-/ in the verb expresses the meaning and the causer and causee are reflected by the ergative and absolutive cases, respectively.