Kirikiri | |
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Faia | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Doufo District, Puncak Regency, Papua |
Native speakers | (250 cited 1982)[1] |
Lakes Plain
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kiy |
Glottolog | kiri1256 |
ELP | Kirikiri |
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]
Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:[3]: 533
Labial | Coronal | Velar | ||
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Stop/Fricative | voiceless | t
[t ~ d] |
k
[k ~ g ~ x ~ ɣ] | |
voiced | b
[b ~ m ~ ᵐb ~ β] |
d
[d ~ n ~ ⁿd ~ l ~ ɾ] |
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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]