Abawiri
| Foau | |
|---|---|
| Doa | |
| Abawiri | |
| Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 350 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | flh |
| Glottolog | foau1240 |
| ELP | Foau |
The Foau language, Abawiri, also known as Doa, is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. Clouse tentatively included Abawiri and neighboring Taburta in an East Lakes Plain subgroup of the Lakes Plain family;[2] however, since only very minimal data was available on the languages at that time,[3] the position of Abawiri and Taburta within the Lakes Plain family remains tentative.
Abawiri is notable for its lack of nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically. Like other Lakes Plain languages, the language is tonal.[4]
References
- ^ Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Clouse, Duane (1997). "Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". Papers in Papuan Linguistics. 2: 133–236.
- ^ Voorhoeve, Clemens L. (1975). Languages of Irian Jaya: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics Series B-31.
- ^ Yoder, Brendon. 2016. The Abawiri tone system in typological perspective. Paper presented at the 8th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL8), 13–14 May 2016. London: SOAS.
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