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Idi
Region	New Guinea
Native speakers	1,600 (2000 census)
Language family	Trans-Fly Pahoturi Idi
Dialects	Idi Tame
Language codes
ISO 639-3	idi
Glottolog	idii1243
Map: The Pahoturi languages of Papua New Guinea

Idi is a Pahoturi language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The so-called Pahoturi dialects form a dialect chain with Idi proper at one end and Agob proper at the other.

Name

The language has been also known as Diblaeg, Dibolug, Dimisi, Dimsisi. Taeme is a dialect distinct from Idi.

Social context

Idi is in contact with other Papuan languages of different families, including Nen, Nambo, and the closely related Agob.

Phonology

Idi phonemic inventory:

Consonants

Vowels:

Grammar

Idi has elaborate verbal morphology, including complex marking of verbal number. Other noteworthy features, which it shares with other Pahoturi River languages, are the high frequency of analytic constructions (consisting of an uninflecting form plus an inflected auxiliary) in addition to directly inflected verbs, and an elaborate inventory of copulas.

See also

• Agob language

References

1. ^ Idi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Idi language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern 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. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
4. Schokkin, Dineke; Gast, Volker; Evans, Nicholas; Döhler, Christian (2021). "Phonetics and Phonology of Idi". In Lindsey, Kate L.; Schokkin, Dineke (eds.). Phonetic Fieldwork in Southern New Guinea. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 24. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 76–107. hdl:10125/24995. ISBN 978-0-9979673-2-6.
5. Schokkin, Dineke (2023). "Verbal number in Idi". Studies in Language. 47 (2): 291–317. doi:10.1075/sl.21052.sch.
6. Lindsey, Kate Lynn; Schokkin, Dineke; Wu, Nairan (2022). "The Pahoturi River language family, with special reference to its verbal puzzles". Linguistic Typology. doi:10.1515/lingty-2022-2096.

External links

• Idi language documentation project
• Map showing the location of Idi (#647).

• Pahoturi languages
• Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)