| Nyindrou | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | westernmost Manus Island, Manus Province |
Native speakers | (4,200 cited 1998) |
| 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.
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 |