Foau language
| Foau | |
|---|---|
| Doa | |
| Abawiri | |
| Region | New Guinea |
Native speakers | 350 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
flh |
| Glottolog |
foau1240[2] |
The Foau language, Abawiri, also known as Doa, is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is notable for its lack of nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.
References
- ↑ Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Foau". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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