Abawiri
bahasa Foau
Abawiri is a Lakes Plain language spoken in Indonesia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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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; due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time. With more data, the connection looks more secure.
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal and for lacking nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.
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Words in Abawiri
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ndi* | |
| name | wo* | |
| eye | ar3* | |
| ear | Nxwako* | |
| nose | Nxwekre* | |
| tooth | wey* | |
| hand | warkre* | |
| blood | n8ow* | |
| bone | kre* | |
| skin | kokakre* | |
| knee | eja* | |
| breast | nduwey* | |
| liver | Ngweyo* | |
| water | die* | |
| fire | n8ow* | |
| sun | Nxwariau* | |
| star | trosoru* | |
| stone | poy* | |
| mountain | pawi* | |
| tree | wre* | |
| night | korjo* | |
| dog | die* | |
| fish | tie* | |
| louse | pikoru* | |
| one | kiaike* | |
| two | ta* | |
| I | adu* | |
| you | nduwo* | |
| drink | diro* | |
| see | ariawride* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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