| Abawiri | |
| Nativename: | Abawiri |
| Also Known As: | Doa |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Western New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 350 |
| Date: | 2010 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Lakes Plain |
| Fam2: | East Lakes Plain |
| Iso3: | flh |
| Glotto: | foau1240 |
| Glottorefname: | Abawiri |
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;[1] due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.[2] With more data, the connection looks more secure.
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal[3] and for lacking nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.[4]
Abawiri has sixteen obstruent consonants (eight plain and eight labialized), as well as one sonorant consonant /ɾ/. The consonant and vowel charts below show the phonemes, followed by their representations in the community orthography (in
) where that representation is different from the phoneme symbol.
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /tʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /kʷ/ | ||||||
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /bʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /dʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /dʒʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /gʷ/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /fʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /sʷ/ | ||||||
| Flap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Extra-high | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |