Foau language

Foau
Doa
Abawiri
Region	New Guinea
Native speakers	350 (2010)^[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain East Lakes Plain Foau
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`flh`
Glottolog	`foau1240`^[2]

The Foau language, Abawiri, also known as Doa, is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is notable for its lack of nasal consonants: there are no nasal or nasalized consonants or vowels, even allophonically.

References

↑ Foau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Foau". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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