| Nyindrou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | westernmost Manus Island, Manus Province |
| Native speakers | (4,200 cited 1998) |
| Language family | Austronesian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lid |
| Glottolog | nyin1250 |
The Nyindrou language is a West Manus language spoken by approximately 4200 people in the westernmost part of Manus Island, Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. It has SVO word order.
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Nyindrou language:
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | g | ɡʷ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||||
| Affricate | ⁿdɾ | dʑ | ||||||
| Liquid | rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
| lateral | l | |||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | ɑ |
References
- Nyindrou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ethnologue report for Nyindrou
- Martin, Bill. 1993. Nyindrou-English practical phonology.
External links
- Kaipuleohone's Robert Blust collections include written and audio recording materials of Nyindrou
| Languages of Papua New Guinea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Papuan languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sign languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Admiralty Islands languages | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manus |
| ||||||
| Southeast | |||||||
| Western | |||||||
| Other | |||||||
 | This article about Admiralty Islands languages is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |