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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.

Phonology

Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones, as in:

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

	Front	Back
Fricated	iʼ	uʼ
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

References

1. Kirikiri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
3. ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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