Nyindrou language
Nyindrou | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | westernmost Manus Island, Manus Province |
Native speakers | 4,200 (1998)[1] |
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 | ||||
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plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | bʷ | d | g | ɡʷ | |||
Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | ||||
Fricative | s | h | ||||||
Affricate | ⁿdɾ | dʑ | ||||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
Lateral | l | |||||||
Approximant | w | j |
Front | Back | |
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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.
- 1 2 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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