Foi
Foi is an East Kutubu language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Foi, also known as Foe or Mubi River, is one of the two East Kutubuan languages of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken along Lake Kutubu and Mubi River, located in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi. A Swadesh list for the Foi language was documented by The Rosetta Project in 2010. The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000.
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Words in Foi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | amena* | |
| name | yafo* | |
| eye | i* | |
| ear | kia* | |
| nose | sabe* | |
| tooth | gi* | |
| tongue | aru* | |
| hand | ya* | |
| blood | hamage* | |
| bone | kigi* | |
| skin | ka7o* | |
| knee | ga7anua* | |
| breast | o7o* | |
| liver | kasia7o* | |
| water | ipu | |
| fire | ira* | |
| sun | iriyabo* | |
| star | irinibu* | |
| stone | kana* | |
| mountain | duma* | |
| tree | ira* | |
| leaf | sae* | |
| night | genemo* | |
| dog | gesa* | |
| fish | yagi* | |
| louse | dabari* | |
| one | menage* | |
| two | hage* | |
| I | nano* | |
| you | na7a* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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