| 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 |
TheAbawiri language is aLakes Plain language ofPapua,Indonesia. It is spoken in the village of Fuau, located along the Dijai River, a tributary to theMamberamo River. Clouse tentatively included Abawiri and neighboring Taburta (Taworta) 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.
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal[4] and for lackingnasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.[5]
Abawiri has sixteen obstruent consonants (eight plain and eight labialized), as well as one sonorant consonant /ɾ/. The consonant and vowel charts below show the phonemes, followed by their representations in the community orthography (in brackets) where that representation is different from the phoneme symbol.
| 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⟩ | ||||||||
Abawiri has seven vowels, including three high front vowels: /i/, /y/, and /i̝/.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Extra-high | i̝⟨yi⟩ | |
| High | iy⟨yu⟩ | u |
| Mid | ɛ⟨e⟩ | |
| Low | a | ɒ⟨o⟩ |
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