Social:Nyindrou language
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Short description: West Manus language spoken in Papua New Guinea
| Nyindrou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | westernmost Manus Island, Manus Province |
Native speakers | (4,200 cited 1998)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lid |
| Glottolog | nyin1250[2] |
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.[3] It has SVO word order.[3]
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Nyindrou language:[4]
| 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)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Nyindrou". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/nyin1250.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
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