| Kokoda | |
| Nativename: | Eme |
| States: | Southwest Papua, Indonesia |
| Region: | Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Bird's Head Peninsula |
| Speakers: | 3,700 |
| Date: | 1991 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea? |
| Fam2: | Berau Gulf |
| Fam3: | South Bird's Head |
| Fam4: | Nuclear/East |
| Fam5: | Kokoda–Arandai |
| Iso3: | xod |
| Glotto: | koko1265 |
| Glottorefname: | Kokoda |
| Dia1: | Negri Besar (Kokoda) |
| Dia2: | Kasuweri (Komudago) |
| Dia3: | Tarof |
Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula spoken by the Eme Yode people of Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Rhotic | tap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| trill | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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| High-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Lourens J. de Vries. 2004. The Kokoda language. In A short grammar of Inanwatan: an endangered language of the Bird's head of Papua, Indonesia, 130-137. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.