Foia Foia language

Foia Foia
Minanibai
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(180 cited 2000 census) [1] 300 Minanibai reported 1980 [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Fly River (Anim) Inland Gulf Foia Foia
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 the Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province).

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

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		ä ⟨ā⟩	ɑ ⟨a⟩

Consonants

	Labial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Voiceless stop	p		t	k	ʔ ⟨ʼ⟩
Voiced stop	b		d	g
Voiceless fricative	ɸ ⟨f⟩	f	s		h
Approximant	w		l

Bibliography

Word lists

• Carr, Philip J. 1991 Foyafoya (Bibisa, W.P. at Kamusi), Hoyahoya (Matakaia, W.P. at Gagoro), Hoyahoya/Hoiahoia (Ukusi-Koperami, W.P. two young men visiting Torobina). Manuscript.
• Z’graggen, John A. 1975. Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent Areas. In: Richard Loving (ed.), Comparative Wordlists I. 5–116. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. (Rearranged version of Franklin ed. 1973: 541–592) with typographical errors.)
• Franklin, Karl J. 1973. Appendices. In: Franklin (ed.), 539–592.
• Johnston, H. L. C. 1920. Vocabulary of Eme-Eme. British New Guinea Annual Report 1919–1920: 120.

References

1. Foia Foia at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
   Minanibai at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
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.

External links

• Foia Foia. New Guinea World.