Foi language

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Foi
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
unknown (2,800 cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 foi
Glottolog foii1241[2]

Foi (Foe) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi.

Pronouns are:

sg du pl
1 na ya'a
yage*
yia
2 na'a haga'a ha'a
3 yo ha'a ya'a

*Ya'a is exclusive, yage inclusive. It's not clear if a reported minimal distinction in the plural between inclusive "yia" and exclusive "yiya" is real.

References

  1. Foi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.


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