Kokoda language

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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.

Kokoda
Eme
Native toSouthwest Papua, Indonesia
RegionKokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers
(3,700 cited 1991)[1]
Dialects
  • Negri Besar (Kokoda)
  • Kasuweri (Komudago)
  • Tarof
Language codes
ISO 639-3xod
Glottologkoko1265

Phonology

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Consonants
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.
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i u
High-mid e o
Low-mid ɛ ɔ
Low a ɑ

References

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  1. ^ 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.

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