Foia Foia
Minanibai
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
180 (2000 census)[1]
300 Minanibai reported 1980[1]
Dialects
  • Mahigi
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
ffi – Foia Foia
mcv – Minanibai
Glottologmina1274  Minanibai
mahi1249  Mahigi

Foia Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai,[2] is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province).

Mahigi, a Foia Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct.[3]

Locations

Foia Foia is spoken in Bibisa village (7°40′01″S 143°10′38″E / 7.666925°S 143.177088°E / -7.666925; 143.177088 (Bibisa)), Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.[4][5]

Minanbai is spoken in Moka (7°16′57″S 143°27′40″E / 7.282409°S 143.461072°E / -7.282409; 143.461072 (Moka No. 1)) and Pepeha (7°39′21″S 144°00′26″E / 7.655742°S 144.007263°E / -7.655742; 144.007263 (Pepeha)) villages of West Kikori Rural LLG, Gulf Province.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open ä ⟨ā⟩ ɑ ⟨a⟩

Consonants

Labial Labiodental Alveolar Velar Glottal
Voiceless stop p t k ʔ ⟨ʼ⟩
Voiced stop b d g
Voiceless fricative ɸ ⟨f⟩ f s h
Approximant w l

Bibliography

Word lists

References

  1. ^ a b Foia Foia at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
    Minanibai at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  3. ^ Cridland, E. 1924. Vocabulary of Mahigi. British New Guinea Annual Report 1923–1924: 58–58.
  4. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

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