Foau
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The Abawiri language is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in the village of Fuau, located along the Dijai River, a tributary to the Mamberamo River. Clouse tentatively included Abawiri and neighboring Taburta (Taworta) in an East Lakes Plain subgroup of the Lakes Plain family; due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time. With more data, the connection looks more secure.
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Vinony's link graph records 669 inbound references to Foau, and connects out to Malay trade and creole languages, Central Malay and Bamayo.
It sits within the topics East Lakes Plain languages, Language articles citing Ethnologue 18 and Languages of Western New Guinea.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- modern language
- Country
- Indonesia
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- native label
- bahasa Foau
- indigenous to
- Papua
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The Abawiri language is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in the village of Fuau, located along the Dijai River, a tributary to the Mamberamo River. Clouse tentatively included Abawiri and neighboring Taburta (Taworta) in an East Lakes Plain subgroup of the Lakes Plain family; due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time. With more data, the connection looks more secure.
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal and for lacking nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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