Kirikiri language

Kirikiri
	Faia
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Doufo District, Puncak Regency, Papua
Native speakers	(250 cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain Tariku Kirikiri; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kiy
Glottolog	kiri1256[2]

Kirikiri (Kirira), or Faia (after its two dialects), is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is spoken in Dofu Wahuka and Paniai villages.[3]

Phonology

Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:[4]^:533

/ɸ/ [ɸ, h, β, p]
/t/ [t, d]
/k/ [k, ɡ, x, ɣ]
/b/ [b, β, m, mb]
/d/ [d, n, nd, l, ɾ]
/s/ [s, z, ʃ, ʒ]

Kirikiri, like Doutai, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels:[4]

iʼ	uʼ
i	u
e	o
a

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gollark: So effectively you just have a mildly larger key.

gollark: So you *also* have to store a timestamp or something?

gollark: So it's a random 4-byte string?

gollark: That actually probably *would* put it in the range of practical bruteforceability, since there are only 4 billion possible 4-byte values and anything you're doing by hand can't be *that* slow to run on a computer.

References

Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kirikiri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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[e18-1] Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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

[Ethnologue22-ID-3] Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

[Foley-NWNG-4] Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.