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.[2]
Phonology
Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:[3]: 533
| Labial | Coronal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop/Fricative | voiceless | t
[t ~ d] |
k
[k ~ g ~ x ~ ɣ] | |
| voiced | b
[b ~ m ~ ᵐb ~ β] |
d
[d ~ n ~ ⁿd ~ l ~ ɾ] |
||
| Obstruent | ɸ
[ɸ ~ p ~ β ~ h] |
s
[s ~ ʃ ~ z ~ ʒ] |
||
Kirikiri, like Doutai, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels:[3]
References
- ^ Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ a b 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. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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