- Source: Foia Foia language
foia" target="_blank">Foia foia" target="_blank">Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province).
Mahigi, a foia" target="_blank">Foia foia" target="_blank">Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct.
Locations
foia" target="_blank">Foia foia" target="_blank">Foia is spoken in Bibisa village (7.666925°S 143.177088°E / -7.666925; 143.177088 (Bibisa)), Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Minanbai is spoken in Moka (7.282409°S 143.461072°E / -7.282409; 143.461072 (Moka No. 1)) and Pepeha (7.655742°S 144.007263°E / -7.655742; 144.007263 (Pepeha)) villages of West Kikori Rural LLG, Gulf Province.
Phonology
= Vowels
== Consonants
=Bibliography
Word lists
Carr, Philip J. 1991 Foyafoya (Bibisa, W.P. at Kamusi), Hoyahoya (Matakaia, W.P. at Gagoro), Hoyahoya/Hoiahoia (Ukusi-Koperami, W.P. two young men visiting Torobina). Manuscript.
Z’graggen, John A. 1975. Comparative wordlists of the Gulf District and adjacent Areas. In: Richard Loving (ed.), Comparative Wordlists I. 5–116. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG. (Rearranged version of Franklin ed. 1973: 541–592) with typographical errors.)
Franklin, Karl J. 1973. Appendices. In: Franklin (ed.), 539–592.
Johnston, H. L. C. 1920. Vocabulary of Eme-Eme. British New Guinea Annual Report 1919–1920: 120.
References
External links
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