Koko-Bera language explained

Koko-Bera language should not be confused with Kookaburra.

Gugubera
Also Known As:Koko Pera
Nativename:Kok-Kaper
States:Australia
Region:Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity:Kokopera
Speakers:18
Date:2021 census
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:Australian
Fam1:Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:Paman
Fam3:Southwestern
Fam4:Coastal
Fam5:Koko Pera
Lc1:kkp
Ld1:Gugubera
Lc2:okg
Ld2:Koko Babangk
Glotto:gugu1254
Glottorefname:Gugubera
Dia1:Koko Bera (Kok Kaber)
Dia2:Kok Peponk (Koko Babangk)
Dia3:Kok Wap?
Dia4:Koko Beberam[2]
Map2:Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Aiatsis:Y85
Aiatsisname:Kok-Kaper
Aiatsis2:Y203
Aiatsisname2:Kok-Paponk
Aiatsis3:Y204
Aiatsisname3:Koko Beberam
Aiatsis4:Y209
Aiatsisname4:Kok Wap
Elp2:10760
Elpname2:Koko Babangk

Gugubera (Koko Pera), or Kok-Kaper, is a Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia

Phonology

Consonants

PeripheralLaminalApical
LabialVelarDentalPalatalAlveolarRetroflex
Plosivepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Rhoticpronounced as /link/ ~ pronounced as /link/
Lateralpronounced as /link/
Approximantpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/

Vowels

FrontCentralBack
Highpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Lowpronounced as /link/
[3] [4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cultural diversity: Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 13 October 2022. 2021.
  2. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  3. Book: Black, Paul . Koko-Bera Island Style Music . Koch . Grace . 1983 . In Aboriginal History, 7(1/2) . 157-172.
  4. Book: Black, Paul . Co-narration of a Koko-Bera story: giants in Cape York Peninsula . Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. . 2011 . In Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin and Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (eds.), Indigenous language and social identity: papers in honour of Michael Walsh . 261-274.