The Nyindrou language is a
West Manus language spoken by approximately 4200 people in the westernmost part of
Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth-largest island in Papua New Guinea, with an area of , measuring around . Manus Island is covered in rugged jungles w ...
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Manus Province
Manus Province is the smallest province in Papua New Guinea in terms of both land area and population, with a land area of , but with more than of water, and the total population is 60,485 (2011 census). The provincial town of Manus is Lorengau.
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Papua New Guinea
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Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Nyindrou language:[Martin, Bill. 1993. Nyindrou-English practical phonology.]
References
External links
* Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...
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collections include written
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and audio recording materials of Nyindrou
Manus languages
Subject–verb–object languages
Languages of Manus Province
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