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	koka1245

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].[3]

Distribution

It is spoken in 10 villages of southern Leshi Township, Hkamti District, Sagaing Region, Myanmar.[3]

References

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).
3. "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

Sources

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