Kokoda is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...

of the

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spoken by the Eme Yode people of Kokoda District,

South Sorong Regency South Sorong Regency () is a regency of Southwest Papua province of Indonesia. It has an area of 6,570.23 km2, and had a population of 37,900 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 52,469 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Sta ...

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. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.

Phonology

* Sounds /b/, /β/; /d/, /r, ɾ/; and /ɡ/, /ɣ/; tend to vary when between vowels.

References

Lourens J. de Vries. 2004. ''The Kokoda language''. In A short grammar of Inanwatan: an endangered language of the Bird's head of Papua, Indonesia, 130-137. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

External links

* Nuclear South Bird's Head languages {{TNG-lang-stub