Kola language

{{Short description|Austronesian language in Maluku}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kola

|state=Indonesia

|region=Aru Islands

|speakers={{sigfig|7730|2}}

|date=1995–2011

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Central–Eastern

|fam4=Aru

|lc1=kvv|ld1=Kola

|lc2=kvp|ld2=Kompane

|glotto=kola1292

|glottorefname=Kola–Kompane

}}

Kola is one of the Aru languages, spoken in the northernmost part of the Aru Islands, mainly on Kola Island and in the northern and western part of Wokam Island.Takata, Masahiro & Yuko Takata (1992). "Kola phonology". In Donald A. Burquest and Wyn D. Laidig (eds.), Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku (NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia, Vol. 34), 31-46. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.Takata, Yuko (1992). "Word Structure and Reduplication in Kola". In Donald A. Burquest and Wyn D. Laidig (eds.), Descriptive Studies in Languages of Maluku (NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia, Vol. 34), 47-68. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.Schapper, Antoinette (2015). "Neuter gender in the languages of Aru". Wacana 16(1). 1-26.