Faiwol is member of the Mountain Ok branch of the Trans-New Guinea language family. It is spoken by about 4,500 people in the Tabudbil Distict of the Western Province and in the Telefomin District of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea, and also in South Papua Province of Indonesia.
Dialects of Faiwol include Faiwol proper, Angkiyak, Wopkei, Setaman, Selbang, Dimtikin and Kauwol. The Setaman dialect is classified as a separate language in some sources.
Download an alphabet chart for Faiwol (Excel)
Falen alimal num Bidak bang unsuduw, ung uta. Sakiba nata godusi am mak danane. Falen ayo bakoyam, amsino Bidak bang unokabuw kaiyo, yaka suduwo. Matam alimal tein suduw si, 9 kilok taw kedane. Alimal medak leiw unuwe. Mr Tabusim ayo bakoda, nalaso nalaso, kalanane. Bá kaba tein badawo. Kinim seng unemin be bá, ake naduwe. Kale alimal nulafin unuw ki. unbitow dak kot kidanom naduwe. Katow fenomo. Balus abiw kakamo. Be, kalomo. Ufek dukum mak teinba, kale naduwe.
Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/2254/LUK.11.COU
I am Sakiba and I wrote this story about Frank and a group of us going to the Bidak river. At the beginning of one day Frank told us that tomorrow we will go to the Bidak river. So we slept and got up the next morning. We stayed awhile until about 9.00 and the group of us started down the trail. A short distance down the trail we met Tabusim who said " I also want to go". We said to him, "No, you stay because there is no need for a lot of people going." We went down until we came to the top of a very steep descent. We looked down at the bottom of the airstrip and saw something big there.
Source: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/42398
Information about Faiwol | Tower of Babel
Information about Faiwol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiwol_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiwol
http://www.language-archives.org/language/fai
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/fai
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created on 23.04.26. Last modified: 23.04.26
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