Kafoa language

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Kafoa
Jafoo, Habollat [1]
Native to Indonesia
Region Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara
Ethnicity Kafoa
Native speakers
1,000 (2013) [2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kpu
Glottolog kafo1240

Kafoa, also known as Jafoo or Habollat, [1] is a Papuan language of Alor Island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. Although Kafoa speakers refer to both themselves and their language with the name "Kafoa", this word is not well known in the area. [3] [4] Kafoa speakers are frequently multilingual, also speaking Alor Malay, Klon, and Abui, also Indonesian as the national language. Children are typically initially taught Alor Malay by their parents and later acquire Kafoa after having reached school age. [3]

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Phonology

The data in this section are taken from Baird (2017). [3]

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative f s h
Semivowel w j ⟨y⟩
Liquid lateral l
rhotic r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes
  Front Central Back
High i iː    u uː
    ʊ ʊː  
      o
Mid       
ɛ ɛː     ɔː
Low    a aː   

References

  1. 1 2 Patji, A.R. (2014). Bahasa, Kebudayaan, dan Pandangan, Tentang Kebahasaan Masyarakat Etnik (Lokal) Kafoa di Alor Nusa Tenggara Timur (1st ed.). Jakarta: LIPI Press. ISBN   978-979-799-775-5.
  2. ↑ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  3. 1 2 3 Baird, Louise (2017). "Kafoa". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 2. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 55–108.
  4. ↑ Kafoa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed Access logo transparent.svg


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