Kairiru language

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Kairiru is an Austronesian language spoken mainly on Kairiru and Mushu islands and in several coastal villages near Wewak in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. About 3,200 people spoke it in 2000. It belongs to the Austronesian language family, within Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Schouten, Kairiru–Manam, Kairiru. Its ISO 639-3 code is kxa and Glottolog code is kair1263.

A notable feature of Kairiru is its pronoun system. It seems to have lost the usual inclusive versus exclusive distinction in its affixes, but creates inclusive forms in independent pronouns by joining first- and second-person forms—similar to Tok Pisin yumi (you + me). The inclusive-exclusive distinction is common in many Austronesian languages but is usually not found in Papuan languages.