Koki language

Koki
	Koki Naga
Native to	Burma
Native speakers	2,000 (2004)[1]
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)
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)

[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).