Foau language
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;[3] due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.[4] With more data, the connection looks more secure.
| Foau | |
|---|---|
| Doa | |
| Abawiri | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Western New Guinea |
Native speakers | 350 (2010)[1] |
Lakes Plain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | flh |
| Glottolog | foau1240[2] |
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal and for its lack of nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.[5]
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless stop | t tʷ <tw> | k kʷ <kw> | ||
| Voiced stop | b bʷ <bw> | d dʷ <dw> | ʤ <j> ʤʷ <jw> | g gʷ <gw> |
| Fricative | f fʷ <fw> | s sʷ <sw> | ||
| Flap | ɾ <r> |
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Extra-high | i̝ <yi> | |
| High | i y <yu> | u |
| Mid | ɛ <e> | |
| Low | a | ɒ <o> |
References
- Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abawiri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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