| Kafoa | |
| Nativename: | Jafoo |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara |
| Speakers: | 1,000 |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea ? |
| Fam2: | West Bomberai ? |
| Fam3: | Timor–Alor–Pantar |
| Fam4: | Alor–Pantar |
| Fam5: | Alor ? |
| Iso3: | kpu |
| Glotto: | kafo1240 |
| Glottorefname: | Kafoa |
Kafoa, or Jafoo, 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. Kafoa speakers are frequently multilingual, also speaking Malay, Klon and Abui. Children are typically initially taught Malay by their parents and later acquire Kafoa after having reached school age.[2]
The data in this section are taken from Baird (2017).[2]
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Liquid | lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Mid | |||||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||