| Abinomn | |
| Also Known As: | Foia |
| Nativename: | Baso |
| Region: | Mamberamo Hulu District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Speakers: | 300 |
| Date: | 2002 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Family: | Language isolate |
| Iso3: | bsa |
| Glotto: | abin1243 |
| Glottorefname: | Abinomn |
The Abinomn language (Avinomen, Foya) is a likely language isolate initially reported by Mark Donohue from Papua province, Indonesia. It is also known as Avinomen, Baso (deprecated), and Foia. There are about 300 speakers.
Abinomn is not closely related to any other language, and its closest relatives are unknown. It is generally treated as a language isolate.[1]
Although surrounded by Lakes Plain languages, Abinomn highly differs from Lakes Plain. For instance, unlike the nearby Lakes Plain languages, Abinomn is a non-tonal language. Languages adjacent to Abinomn are:
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
The Abinomn pronouns are:
| singular | dual | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | mit | we | mor | we | awp | |
| you (nominative) | ni | you two | por | you | pi | |
| he, she | in, nn | they two | nar | they | kn | |
Number inflection for selected Abinomn nouns showing suppletive forms, as listed in Foley (2018):[2]
| ‘armband’ | atamatu | atamaturom | atamatukon | |
| ‘aunt’ | nyebak | nyebakrom | nyebakaigon | |
| ‘bamboo knife’ | abisiam | abissabrom | abisiasom | |
| ‘barbed arrow’ | kari | karirom | karigon | |
| ‘bandicoot’ | aine | ainerom | ainekon | |
| ‘calf of leg’ | din | dirom | doidi | |
| ‘cassowary’ | komosin | komosirom | komosidi | |
| ‘catfish’ | mum | mubrum | mukr | |
| ‘centipede’ | sm | sbrom | skr | |
| ‘cockatoo’ | arkon | arkorom | arkoti | |
| ‘comb’ | isr | isrdom | isrkon | |
| ‘drum’ | itowa | itowarom | itowakon | |
| ‘egg’ | ak | akrom | aigon | |
| ‘father’s father’ | moi | moirom | moigon | |
| ‘fireplace’ | msm | msbrom | mskr | |
| ‘fishing arrow’ | den | derom | deti | |
| ‘footwear’ | tefir | tefidom | tefirkon | |
| ‘grasshopper’ | saseinakin | saseinakirom | saseinakidi | |
| ‘hair’ | erk | erkrom | erkigon | |
| ‘hand’ | akwir | akwidom | akwirkon | |
| ‘headband’ | kwetam | kwetambrom | kwetakr | |
| ‘house’ | pr | prdom | prkon | |
| ‘jungle’ | gwek | gwekrom | gwekigon | |
| ‘knife handle’ | tam | tabrom | tatom | |
| ‘lake’ | kesif | kesifrom | kesifkon | |
| ‘leech’ | piar | piardom | piarkom | |
| ‘louse’ | jen | jendrom | jeti | |
| ‘maleo fowl’ | igwuk | igwukrom | igwukigon | |
| ‘night’ | siwi | siwirom | siwkon | |
| ‘owl’ | weimn | weimrom | weimti | |
| ‘pot’ | jek | jekrom | jekigon | |
| ‘praying mantis’ | tigwere | tigwererom | tigwerekon | |
| ‘prawn’ | beresmin | beresmindrom | beresmidi | |
| ‘river turtle’ | fan | farom | fati | |
| ‘sago pudding’ | midam | midabrom | midatom | |
| ‘star’ | skin | skirom | skidi | |
| ‘stone’ | wor | wordom | workon | |
| ‘sunbird’ | weim | weibrom | weigr | |
| ‘swamp’ | okwi | okwirom | okwigon | |
| ‘thigh’ | ker | kedom | kerkon | |
| ‘thorn’ | doin | doirom | doidi | |
| ‘toe’ | gwesiam | gwesiabrom | gwesasom | |
| ‘tree kangaroo’ | we | werom | wekon | |
| ‘wallaby’ | dk | dkrom | digon | |
| ‘water snake’ | moi | moirom | moigon | |
| ‘younger brother’ | ai | airom | akon |