Koki language

Sino-Tibetan language of Burma
Koki
Koki Naga
Native toBurma
Native speakers
2,000 (2004)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tangkhulic?
    Ao?
    • Koki
Language codes
ISO 639-3nxk
Glottologkoka1245

Koki (Konke, Kokak), or Koki Naga, is an unclassified Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma. Speakers are included under the wider Naga ethnicity. It has been documented in Shintani (2018).[2]

Classification

Koki is currently unclassified within Tibeto-Burman. Ethnologue (21st edition) notes that Koki shares 19%–32% lexical similarity with Tangkhul Naga [ntx] in Myanmar, 23% with Akyaung Ari Naga [nqy], and 22%–24% with Jejara Naga [pzn].[3]

Distribution

It is spoken in 10 villages of southern Leshi Township, Hkamti District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar.[3]

References

  1. ^ Koki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Shintani Tadahiko. 2018. The Kokak language. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 119. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
  3. ^ a b "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

Sources

  • Barkman, Tiffany. 2014. A descriptive grammar of Jejara (Para Naga). MA thesis, Chiang Mai: Payap University.
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