Foau language
The Abawiri language, Foau, 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] due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.[3] With more data, the connection looks more secure.
| Abawiri | |
|---|---|
| Doa | |
| Abawiri | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Western New Guinea |
Native speakers | 350 (2010)[1] |
Lakes Plain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | flh |
| Glottolog | foau1240 |
| ELP | Foau |
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.[4]
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | rounded | plain | rounded | plain | rounded | plain | rounded | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | t | tʷ ⟨tw⟩ | k | kʷ ⟨kw⟩ | ||||
| voiced | b | bʷ ⟨bw⟩ | d | dʷ ⟨dw⟩ | dʒ ⟨j⟩ | dʒʷ ⟨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
- Abawiri 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.
Further reading
- Yoder, Brendon Eugene (2020). A Grammar of Abawiri, a Lakes Plain Language of Papua, Indonesia (PhD thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara.
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