| Kirikiri | |
| Nativename: | Faia |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Doufo District, Puncak Regency, Papua |
| Speakers: | 250 |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Lakes Plain |
| Fam2: | Tariku |
| Iso3: | kiy |
| Glotto: | kiri1256 |
| Glottorefname: | 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.[1]
Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:
| Stop/Fricative | voiceless | t[t ~ d] | k[k ~ g ~ x ~ ɣ] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiced | b[b ~ m ~ ᵐb ~ β] | d[d ~ n ~ ⁿd ~ l ~ ɾ] | |||
| Obstruent | ɸ[ɸ ~ p ~ β ~ h] | s[s ~ ʃ ~ z ~ ʒ] | |||
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fricated | iʼ | uʼ | |
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
Languages of the World
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