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Foi
RegionPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
6,000 (2015)[1]
Language family
Papuan Gulf ?
  • Kikorian
    • Kutubuan
      • East Kutubuan
        • Foi
Language codes
ISO 639-3foi
Glottologfoii1241

Foi, also known as Foe or Mubi River, is one of the two East Kutubuan languages of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken along Lake Kutubu and Mubi River, located in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.[1] Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi.[2] A Swadesh list for the Foi language was documented by The Rosetta Project in 2010.[3] The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000.[4]

  1. ^ a b Foi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ International encyclopedia of linguistics. Frawley, William, 1953- (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-19-513977-1. OCLC 51478240.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Foi Swadesh List. The Rosetta Project.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ Niles, Don; Weiner, James F. (2015), "Introduction:: Foi Songs and the Performance, Publication, and Poetry of Papua New Guinea Sung Traditions", Songs of the Empty Place, The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, ANU Press, pp. xv–l, ISBN 978-1-925022-22-3, JSTOR j.ctt16wd0gx.6

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