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.
Kirikiri does not have many consonant phonemes, but there are many consonant allophones:
Kirikiri, like Doutai, has the fricativized high vowels iü and uü. There are 7 vowels:
Other sources analyse the vowel phonemes differently. One analysis published by SIL Global describes the fricativized high vowels as /i/ and /u/, analyze the close vowels as /e/ and /o/, and transcribes the mid vowels as /ÃÂ/ and /ÃÂ/.
A set of two vowels at the same tone will diphthonize, but a set of two vowels with different tones will not. Instances of /u/ between vowels or between /k/ and a vowel are realized as [w].
Kirikiri has four tones: low, high, falling, and rising. The low tone is marked VÃÂ, the high tone is marked VÃÂ, the falling tone is marked VÃÂVÃÂ, and the rising tone is marked VÃÂVÃÂ. The syllable structure is (C)(C)V, but some speakers pronounce CCV syllables as CÃÂCV.
Kirikiri does not have a universally accepted orthography, but SIL Global has created one.