Foau language
Foau | |
---|---|
Doa | |
Abawiri | |
Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 350 (2010)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
flh |
Glottolog |
foau1240 [2] |
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] however, since only very minimal data was available on the languages at that time,[4] 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.[5]
References
- ↑ Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Foau". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: 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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