Gokana language
| Gokana | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Gokana, Rivers State |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1989)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gkn |
| Glottolog | goka1239 |
Gokana (Gòkánà) is an Ogoni language spoken by some 130,000 people in Rivers State, Nigeria.
Writing system
| Uppercase letters | A | B | D | E | Ẹ | F | G | Gb | Gy | I | K | Kp | Ky | L | M | N | Ng | Nv | Ny | O | Ọ | P | S | T | V | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase letters | a | b | d | e | ẹ | f | g | gb | gy | i | k | kp | ky | l | m | n | ng | nv | ny | o | ọ | p | s | t | v | z |
Nasal vowels are indicated by a tilde and tones are indicated by an acute or grave accent:
- The high tone is indicated by an acute accent : á, ã́, é, ẹ́, ẽ́, í, ĩ́, ó, ọ́, ṍ, ú, ṹ, ḿ ;
- The low tone is indicated by a grave accent : à, ã̀, è, ẹ̀, ẽ̀, ì, ĩ̀, ò, ọ̀, õ̀, ù, ũ̀, m̀ ;
- The middle tone is indicated with no diacritic.
References
- ^ Gokana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- "A global linguistic database:Gokana" Tower of Babel Project
- Brosnahan, L. F. (1964) "Outlines of the Phonology of the Gokana Dialect of Ogoni" Journal of West African Languages 1(1): pp. 43–48
- Brosnahan, L. F. (1967) "A Word List of the Gokana Dialect of Ogoni" Journal of West African Languages 4(2): pp. 43–52
- Hyman, Larry M. and Comrie, B. (1981) "Logophoric Reference in Gokana" Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (Leiden) 3(1): pp. 19–37
- Hyman, Larry M. (1982) "The representation of nasality in Gokana" In Hulst, Harry, van der and Smith, Norval (eds.) (1982) The Structure of Phonological Representations part, 1 Foris Publishing, Dordrecht, Holland, ISBN 90-70176-53-X
- Yan Huang (2003) "Switch-reference in Amele and logophoric verbal suffix in Gokana: a generalized neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis" In Georgiafentis, M.; Haeberli, E, and Varlokosta, S. (eds.) (2003) Reading Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 7, pp. 53–76, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, Reading, UK
- Bond, Oliver and Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2005) "Divergent Structure in Ogonoid Languages" In (2005) Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society Volume 31, Berkeley Linguistic Society, Berkeley, California