Foia Foia language

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Foia Foia
Minanibai
Native to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
180 (2000 census) [1]
300 Minanibai reported 1980 [1]
Dialects
  • Mahigi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
ffi   Foia Foia
mcv   Minanibai
Glottolog mina1274   Minanibai
mahi1249   Mahigi

Foia Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai, [2] is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province).

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Mahigi, a Foia Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct. [3]

Locations

Foia Foia is spoken in Bibisa village ( 7°40′01″S143°10′38″E / 7.666925°S 143.177088°E / -7.666925; 143.177088 (Bibisa) ), Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. [4] [5]

Minanbai is spoken in Moka ( 7°16′57″S143°27′40″E / 7.282409°S 143.461072°E / -7.282409; 143.461072 (Moka No. 1) ) and Pepeha ( 7°39′21″S144°00′26″E / 7.655742°S 144.007263°E / -7.655742; 144.007263 (Pepeha) ) villages of West Kikori Rural LLG, Gulf Province.

Phonology

Vowels

FrontCentralBack
Closeiu
Mideo
Openä ⟨ā⟩ɑ ⟨a⟩

Consonants

LabialLabiodentalAlveolarVelarGlottal
Voiceless stopptkʔ ⟨ʼ⟩
Voiced stopbdg
Voiceless fricativeɸ ⟨f⟩fsh
Approximantwl

Bibliography

Word lists

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References

  1. 1 2 Foia Foia at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
    Minanibai at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  3. Cridland, E. 1924. Vocabulary of Mahigi. British New Guinea Annual Report 1923–1924: 58–58.
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.