Kokoda language
| Kokoda | |
|---|---|
| Eme | |
| Native to | Southwest Papua, Indonesia |
| Region | Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Bird's Head Peninsula |
Native speakers | (3,700 cited 1991)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea?
| |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xod |
| Glottolog | koko1265 |
Kokoda is a
Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula spoken by the Eme Yode people of Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua
. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t
|
c | k |
| voiced | b | d
|
ɟ | ɡ | |
| Fricative | β | s | ɕ | ɣ | |
| Nasal | m | n
|
ɲ | ||
| Rhotic | tap
|
ɾ | |||
| trill | r
|
||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||
- Sounds /b/, /β/; /d/, /r, ɾ/; and /ɡ/, /ɣ/; tend to vary when between vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
High
|
i | u | |
High-mid
|
e | o | |
Low-mid
|
ɛ | ɔ | |
Low
|
a | ɑ |
References
- ^ Kokoda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Lourens J. de Vries. 2004. The Kokoda language. In A short grammar of Inanwatan: an endangered language of the Bird's head of Papua, Indonesia, 130-137. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
External links
- "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
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