Kirikiri language

Kirikiri
Faia
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Doufo District, Puncak Regency, Papua
Native speakers	(250 cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain Tariku Kirikiri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kiy
Glottolog	kiri1256
ELP	Kirikiri

Kirikiri (Kirira), or Faia (after its two dialects), is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is spoken in Dofu Wahuka and Paniai villages.^[2]

Phonology

Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:^[3]: 533

		Labial	Coronal	Velar
Stop/Fricative	voiceless		t [t ~ d]	k [k ~ g ~ x ~ ɣ]
	voiced	b [b ~ m ~ ᵐb ~ β]	d [d ~ n ~ ⁿd ~ l ~ ɾ]
Obstruent		ɸ [ɸ ~ p ~ β ~ h]	s [s ~ ʃ ~ z ~ ʒ]

Kirikiri, like Doutai, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels:^[3]

	Front	Back
Fricated	iʼ	uʼ
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

References

1. Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
3. Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.