Kirikiri language
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]
| Kirikiri | |
|---|---|
| Faia | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Doufo District, Puncak Regency, Papua |
Native speakers | (250 cited 1982)[1] |
Lakes Plain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kiy |
| Glottolog | kiri1256 |
| ELP | Kirikiri[2] |
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
References
- Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Kirikiri.
- 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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