# Abawiri > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Abawiri > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Abawiri.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abawiri > Source revision: 1320203166 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Lakes Plain language native to Indonesia}} {{Infobox language |name=Abawiri |nativename=''Abawiri'' |altname=Doa |states=[Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) |region=[Western New Guinea](/source/Western_New_Guinea) |ethnicity= |speakers=350 |date=2010 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Papuan |fam1=[Lakes Plain](/source/Lakes_Plain_languages) |fam2=[East Lakes Plain](/source/East_Lakes_Plain_languages) |iso3=flh |glotto=foau1240 |glottorefname=Abawiri }} The '''Abawiri language''' is a [Lakes Plain language](/source/Lakes_Plain_languages) of [Papua](/source/Western_New_Guinea), [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia). It is spoken in the village of Fuau, located along the Dijai River, a tributary to the [Mamberamo River](/source/Mamberamo_River). Clouse tentatively included Abawiri and neighboring Taburta ([Taworta](/source/Taworta_language)) in an East Lakes Plain subgroup of the Lakes Plain family;{{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}} due to the minimal data that was available on the languages at that time.{{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}} With more data, the connection looks more secure. Like other Lakes Plain languages, Abawiri is notable for being heavily tonal{{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)](/source/Language_(Phonological_Analysis)) |volume=94 |issue=4 |pages=e266–e292 |doi=10.1353/lan.2018.0067 |s2cid=150242777 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription }} and for lacking [nasal consonants](/source/nasal_consonant): there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.{{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}} == 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](/source/Labial_consonant) ! colspan="2" | [Alveolar](/source/Alveolar_consonant) ! colspan="2" | [Alveolo-palatal](/source/Alveolo-palatal_consonant) ! colspan="2" | [Velar](/source/Velar_consonant) |- ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} ! {{small|plain}} || {{small|rounded}} |- ! rowspan="2" | [Plosive](/source/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](/source/Fricative) | {{IPA link|f}} || {{IPA link|fʷ}} {{grapheme|fw}} | {{IPA link|s}} || {{IPA link|sʷ}} {{grapheme|sw}} | || | || |- ! colspan="2" | [Flap](/source/Tap_and_flap_consonants) | || | {{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](/source/Front_vowel) ![Back](/source/Back_vowel) |- ![Extra-high](/source/High_vowel) |{{IPA link|i̝}} {{grapheme|yi}} | |- ![High](/source/High_vowel) |{{IPA link|i}} {{IPA link|y}} {{grapheme|yu}} |{{IPA link|u}} |- ![Mid](/source/Mid_vowel) |{{IPA link|ɛ}} {{grapheme|e}} | |- ![Low](/source/Low_vowel) |{{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}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Abawiri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abawiri) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abawiri?action=history)). 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