Foi language

Foi
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(2,800 cited 1980)[1]
Language family	Papuan Gulf ? Kikorian Kutubuan East Kutubuan Foi; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	foi
Glottolog	foii1241[2]

Foi (Foe) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi.

Pronouns are:

	sg	du	pl
1	na	ya'a yage*	yia
2	na'a	haga'a	ha'a
3	yo	ha'a	ya'a

*Ya'a is exclusive, yage inclusive. It's not clear if a reported minimal distinction in the plural between inclusive "yia" and exclusive "yiya" is real.

References

↑ Foi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Foi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Foi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Foi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.