Kokoda language
| Kokoda | |
|---|---|
| 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?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xod |
| Glottolog | koko1265 |
Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula 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 | Alveolo- palatal |
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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