Social:Nyindrou language

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Short description: West Manus language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Nyindrou
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionwesternmost Manus Island, Manus Province
Native speakers
(4,200 cited 1998)[1]
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Admiralty Islands
        • Eastern Admiralty Islands
          • Manus
            • West Manus
              • Nyindrou
Language codes
ISO 639-3lid
Glottolognyin1250[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]

Consonant sounds
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
Vowel sounds
Front Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low ɑ

References

  1. ↑ Nyindrou at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Ethnologue report for Nyindrou
  4. ↑ 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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