Koki language

Koki
Koki
Koki Naga
Native to	Burma
Native speakers	2,000 (2004)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tangkhulic?; Ao? Koki; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nxk
Glottolog	None

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].

Distribution

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

References

^ Koki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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).

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

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[e18-1] 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).

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