Foau language

Abawiri
	Doa
	Abawiri
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Western New Guinea
Native speakers	350 (2010)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain East Lakes Plain Abawiri; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	flh
Glottolog	foau1240[2]

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;[3] due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.[4] With more data, the connection looks more secure.

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.[5]

Phonology

Abawiri consonants
	Labial	Alveolar	Alveolo-palatal	Velar
Voiceless stop		t tʷ <tw>		k kʷ <kw>
Voiced stop	b bʷ <bw>	d dʷ <dw>	ʤ <j> ʤʷ <jw>	g gʷ <gw>
Fricative	f fʷ <fw>	s sʷ <sw>
Flap		ɾ <r>

Abawiri vowels
	Front	Back
Extra-high	i̝ <yi>
High	i y <yu>	u
Mid	ɛ <e>
Low	a	ɒ <o>

gollark: Wait, no, it still equals 0.

gollark: I guess that's better, sure.

gollark: ?

gollark: So 1 = infinity instead

gollark: It's inf, not undefined.

References

Abawiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abawiri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: 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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[e18-1] Abawiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Abawiri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Clouse, Duane (1997). "Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". Papers in Papuan Linguistics. 2: 133–236.

[4] Voorhoeve, Clemens L. (1975). Languages of Irian Jaya: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics Series B-31.

[5] 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.