Foi language
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. Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi. A Swadesh list for the Foi language was documented by The Rosetta Project in 2010. The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000.
| Foi | |
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| Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2015) |
Papuan Gulf ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | foi |
| Glottolog | foii1241 |
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