Kokota

E146929

Kokota is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, particularly on Santa Isabel Island.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kokota canonical 6
Kubokota 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
Oceanic language
language
belongsTo Northwest Solomonic languages
surface form: Northwest Solomonic subgroup of Oceanic
closelyRelatedTo Blablanga
Southeast Solomonic languages
surface form: Gao language (Solomon Islands)
country Solomon Islands
documentedBy Bill Palmer
endangeredStatus vulnerable language
geographicDistribution northwestern Santa Isabel Island
hasAlternativeName Kokota language
hasClauseType verb-initial clauses
hasDemonstrativeSystem three-way distance contrast
hasEthnologueCode kkk
hasGlottocode koko1267
hasGlottologName Kokota self-link
hasGrammarDescription A Grammar of Kokota
hasISO639-3Code kkk
hasLinguisticFeature aspectual particles
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
possessive classifiers
serial verb constructions
subject proclitics on verbs
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNegationStrategy particle-based negation
hasNumberSystem decimal numeral system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
prenasalized stops
simple consonant inventory
hasStressPattern penultimate stress (default)
hasTAMSystem aspect-prominent
hasWordOrder SVO
isSpokenBy Kokota people
languageBranch Oceanic languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
languageGroup Northwest Solomonic languages
languageSubfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
languageSubgroup New Georgia–Ysabel languages
Ysabel languages
region Santa Isabel Island
spokenIn Solomon Islands
spokenOn Isabel Province
Santa Isabel Island
usedIn everyday communication on Santa Isabel Island
local church services
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Meso-Melanesian languages hasMemberLanguage Kokota
this entity surface form: Kubokota
Kokota hasGlottologName Kokota self-link