Kokoda language

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 to	Southwest Papua, Indonesia
Region	Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers	(3,700 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Berau Gulf South Bird's Head Nuclear/East Kokoda–Arandai Kokoda
Dialects	Negri Besar (Kokoda) Kasuweri (Komudago) Tarof
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xod
Glottolog	koko1265

Phonology

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

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.

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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)