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

• /ɸ/ [ɸ, h, β, p]
• /t/ [t, d]
• /k/ [k, ɡ, x, ɣ]
• /b/ [b, β, m, mb]
• /d/ [d, n, nd, l, ɾ]
• /s/ [s, z, ʃ, ʒ]

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

iʼ	uʼ
i	u
e	o
a

References

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