Kokoda language

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

Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula spoken by the Kokoda (Emeyode) people of Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua. The four dialects — Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, Tarof, and Yamueti — are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.

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

Bibliography

• de Vries, Lourens J. (2004). "The Kokoda language". A short grammar of Inanwatan: an endangered language of the Bird's head of Papua, Indonesia (PDF). Pacific Linguistics. Vol. 560. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 130–137. ISBN 0858835452.