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.
11-479: [REDACTED] Look up FOI or foi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. FOI or Foi may refer to: Organisations [ edit ] Family Opera Initiative , an American opera company Fellowship of Isis , an international spiritual organization Forum Oratori Italiani , a Catholic youth organization Fruit of Islam , paramilitary wing of
22-697: A Catholic youth organization Fruit of Islam , paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam Swedish Defence Research Agency (Swedish: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI)) Other uses [ edit ] Foi language , spoken in Papua New Guinea Freedom of information Saint Faith (Foy or sometimes Foi), a third-century French saint Foi, a village in Crăciunești , Romania See also [ edit ] Foy (disambiguation) FOIA (disambiguation) Sainte-Foi ,
33-555: A place in France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FOI . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOI&oldid=1141667286 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Swedish-language text Short description
44-492: A place in France Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title FOI . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOI&oldid=1141667286 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Swedish-language text Short description
55-406: A series of evidentials to mark the verbal aspect of seen, unseen, deduced, possibility, and mental deduction. The subject or focus transitive in a sentence is marked with -mo as shown in example (1) below. no-mo I- FOC agira sweet.potato nibi'ae eat.did no-mo agira nibi'ae I-FOC sweet.potato eat.did 'I ate the sweet potato' Where the focus is on the person who
66-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FOI [REDACTED] Look up FOI or foi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. FOI or Foi may refer to: Organisations [ edit ] Family Opera Initiative , an American opera company Fellowship of Isis , an international spiritual organization Forum Oratori Italiani ,
77-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Foi language Foi is a subject–object–verb language, similar to most languages in Papua New Guinea . Foe adopts the usage of focused objects as sentence-initial. In noun phrases, Foi follows the pattern of Noun + Quantifier and Adjective + Noun. Adverbial phrases are marked postpositionally by clitics in Foi. Foi also has
88-420: Is eating the sweet potato. Foi has separate words for today and yesterday, as well as two, three, four and five days prior and hence. Singular, dual , and plural are distinguished in personal pronouns . In addition, Foe also marks clusivity for first-person pronouns . It was not made clear if a reported minimal distinction in the first-person plural form between the inclusive jia and exclusive jija
99-482: Is real. Foi features 5 vowels . The 16 consonants including the glottal stop used in Foi are: Allophonic variation of [t], [d] and [r] is common. The vowel /y/ was mentioned as a consonant by Franklin, suggesting that the research was phonetically noted in Americanist phonetic notation . The table above has been amended according to the standards of International Phonetic Alphabet . Foi adopts
110-399: The body-part counting system . This feature can also be found in approximately 60 Trans-New Guinea Languages such as Fasu and Oksapmin . Counting typically begins by touching (and usually bending) the fingers of one hand, moves up the arm to the shoulders and neck, and in some systems, to other parts of the upper body or the head. A central point serves as the half-way point. Once this
121-441: The Nation of Islam Swedish Defence Research Agency (Swedish: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI)) Other uses [ edit ] Foi language , spoken in Papua New Guinea Freedom of information Saint Faith (Foy or sometimes Foi), a third-century French saint Foi, a village in Crăciunești , Romania See also [ edit ] Foy (disambiguation) FOIA (disambiguation) Sainte-Foi ,
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