Nyindrou language

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The Nyindrou language is an Oceanic language spoken by communities in the Admiralty Islands of Papua New Guinea.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nyindrou language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
classificationStatus well-attested in Oceanic classifications
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottologName Nyindrou NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lindrou NERFINISHED
Nyindru NERFINISHED
hasDomain local community communication
local religious practice
traditional oral literature
hasGlottocode nyin1240
hasLinguisticArea Papuan Tip–Admiralty Oceanic area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType predominantly analytic
hasNeighboringLanguage Loniu language NERFINISHED
Papitalai language
Titan language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported for many Admiralty languages)
small consonant inventory (typical of Oceanic languages)
hasTypology SVO word order
iso639-3Code lid
isRelatedTo Loniu language NERFINISHED
Other Western Admiralty languages
Papitalai language
Titan language
isSpokenBy several thousand speakers (approximate)
languageFamily Admiralty Islands NERFINISHED
Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Malayo-Polynesian NERFINISHED
Oceanic
partOfLanguageFamily Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
region Admiralty Islands NERFINISHED
Manus Island NERFINISHED
spokenIn Admiralty Islands NERFINISHED
Manus Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Admiralty Islands languages NERFINISHED
Western Admiralty Islands languages NERFINISHED
usedByEthnicGroup Nyindrou people NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Admiralty Islands languages hasMember Nyindrou language
Manus people traditionalLanguage Nyindrou language