Koki language explained

Koki
Also Known As:	Koki Naga
States:	Burma
Speakers:	2,000
Date:	2004
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tangkhulic? Ao?
Iso3:	nxk
Glotto:	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).^[1]

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].^[2]

Distribution

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

Sources

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

Notes and References

1. 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).
2. Web site: 2016 . Myanmar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages . 2016-10-10 . Ethnologue: Languages of the World.