Foe
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
[under construction]
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Sources
Rule (1965) (unobtained)
Rule (1977) comparative description of Foe, Huli and Erave (Pole) including including 355 comparative terms (pp. 12-26) and 101 Swadesh terms (pp. 121-124)
Rule (1993) (unobtained)
MacDonald (1973: 131-132) phonological inventory
Franklin ed. (1973: 557-558) 100 comparative terms
Franklin (2001) comparative notes on Kutubuan and Engan
Phonology
[under construction]
Rule (1977: 8-11) gives 15 consonants and 5 vowels for Foe as follows:
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Initial plain stops /*b *d *g/ are realized as plain (unaspirated) voiceless [p t k].
Apical non-stop /ɾ/ and glottal stop /ʔ/ occur only medially.
Pronouns
Rule (1977: 47-48) gives Foe pronouns in two case forms as follows:
| simple | possessive | |
| 1 sg. | na(no) | no-mo |
| 2 sg. | naʔa | nomaʔa-mo |
| 3 sg. | jo | jo-ø |
| 1 pl. excl. | jia | jia-mo |
| 1 pl. incl. | jija | jija-mo |
| 2 pl. | haʔa | hemaʔa-mo |
| 3 pl. | jaʔa | jaʔa-ø |
| 1 dl. excl. | jage | jage-mo |
| 1 dl. incl. | jaʔa | jaʔa-ø |
| 2 dl. | hagaʔa | hagemaʔa-mo |
| 3 dl. | hagera | hagera-mo |