Koki language
{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language of Burma}}
{{Infobox language
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|altname=Koki Naga
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|ethnicity=
|speakers=2,000
|date=2004
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=Tangkhulic?
Ao?
|iso3=nxk
|glotto=koka1245
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{{Naga people}}
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).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).
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].{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Myanmar |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages |archive-date=2016-10-10 |website=Ethnologue: Languages of the World}}
Distribution
It is spoken in 10 villages of southern Leshi Township, Hkamti District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar.
References
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Sources
- Barkman, Tiffany. 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161009022525/http://ic.payap.ac.th/wp-content/uploads/linguistics_students/Tiffany_Barkman_Thesis.pdf A descriptive grammar of Jejara (Para Naga)]. MA thesis, Chiang Mai: Payap University.
{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}
{{Languages of Burma}}
Category:Kuki-Chin–Naga languages
Category:Unclassified Sino-Tibetan languages
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