{{Short description|Lakes Plain language native to Indonesia}}
{{Infobox language |name=Abawiri |nativename=''Abawiri'' |altname=Doa |states=Indonesia |region=Western New Guinea |ethnicity= |speakers=350 |date=2010 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Papuan |fam1=Lakes Plain |fam2=East Lakes Plain |iso3=flh |glotto=foau1240 |glottorefname=Abawiri }}
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;<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Clouse|first=Duane|date=1997|title=Toward a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya|journal=Papers in Papuan Linguistics|volume=2|pages=133–236}}</ref> due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Languages of Irian Jaya: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists|last=Voorhoeve|first=Clemens L.|publisher=Pacific Linguistics Series B-31|year=1975|location=Canberra}}</ref> With more data, the connection looks more secure.
Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yoder |first=Brendon |date=2018 |title=The Abawiri tone system in typological perspective |url=https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2018.0067 |journal=Language (Phonological Analysis) |volume=94 |issue=4 |pages=e266–e292 |doi=10.1353/lan.2018.0067 |s2cid=150242777 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and for lacking nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=A grammar of Abawiri, a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mj571tr |publisher=University of California Santa Barbara |date=2020 |language=en |first=Brendon |last=Yoder |degree=PhD dissertation}}</ref>
== Phonology == Abawiri has sixteen obstruent consonants (eight plain and eight labialized), as well as one sonorant consonant /ɾ/. The consonant and vowel charts below show the phonemes, followed by their representations in the community orthography (in brackets) where that representation is different from the phoneme symbol. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Abawiri consonants ! colspan="2" rowspan="2"| ! colspan="2" | Labial ! colspan="2" | Alveolar ! colspan="2" | Alveolo-palatal ! colspan="2" | Velar |- ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} |- ! rowspan="2" | Plosive ! {{small|voiceless}} | || | {{IPA link|t}} || {{IPA link|tʷ}} {{grapheme|tw}} | || | {{IPA link|k}} || {{IPA link|kʷ}} {{grapheme|kw}} |- ! {{small|voiced}} | {{IPA link|b}} || {{IPA link|bʷ}} {{grapheme|bw}} | {{IPA link|d}} || {{IPA link|dʷ}} {{grapheme|dw}} | {{IPA link|dʒ}} {{grapheme|j}} || {{IPA link|dʒʷ}} {{grapheme|jw}} | {{IPA link|g}} || {{IPA link|gʷ}} {{grapheme|gw}} |- ! colspan="2" | Fricative | {{IPA link|f}} || {{IPA link|fʷ}} {{grapheme|fw}} | {{IPA link|s}} || {{IPA link|sʷ}} {{grapheme|sw}} | || | || |- ! colspan="2" | Flap | || | {{IPA link|ɾ}} {{grapheme|r}} || | || | || |} Abawiri has seven vowels, including three high front vowels: /i/, /y/, and /i̝/. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Abawiri vowels ! !Front !Back |- !Extra-high |{{IPA link|i̝}} {{grapheme|yi}} | |- !High |{{IPA link|i}} {{IPA link|y}} {{grapheme|yu}} |{{IPA link|u}} |- !Mid |{{IPA link|ɛ}} {{grapheme|e}} | |- !Low |{{IPA link|a}} |{{IPA link|ɒ}} {{grapheme|o}} |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}} {{Lakes Plain languages}}
Category:East Lakes Plain languages Category:Languages of Western New Guinea
{{Indonesia-stub}} {{papuan-lang-stub}}