Foia Foia language

Foia Foia
Minanibai
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
(180 cited 2000 census)
300 Minanibai reported 1980
Dialects
  • Mahigi
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
ffi  Foia Foia
mcv  Minanibai
Glottologmina1274  Minanibai
mahi1249  Mahigi

Foia Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near the Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province).

Mahigi, a Foia Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct.