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Kokota (also known as “Ooe Kokota”) is spoken on the Island, Santa Isabel, which is located in the Solomon Island chain in the Pacific Ocean. Santa Isabel is one of the larger islands in the chain, but it has a very low population density. Kokota is the main language of three villages: Goveo, Sisigā, and Hurepelo, though there are a few speakers who reside in the capital, Honiara, and elsewhere as well. The language is classified as a 6b (threatened) on the Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS). To contextualize '6b', the language is not in immediate danger of extinction since children in the villages are still taught Kokota and speak it at home despite English being the language of the school system. However, Kokota is threatened by another language, Cheke Holo, as speakers of this language move geographically closer to the Kokota-speaking villages. Kokota is one of 37 languages in the Northwestern Solomon Group, and as with many Oceanic languages, it had limited morphological complexity. [1]: 3 Kokota uses little affixation and instead relies heavily on cliticization, full and partial reduplication, and compounding. Phonologically, Kokota has a diverse array of vowels and consonants and makes interesting use of stress assignment. Regarding its basic syntax, Kokota is consistently head-initial. The sections below expand on each of these topics to give an overview of the Kokota language.
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Kokota (Ooe Kokota) | |
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Native to | Solomon Islands |
Region | 3 villages on the Island Santa Isabel: Goveo, Sisiḡa, Honiara |
Ethnicity | Kokota (people) |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2009)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Northwest Solomonic (NWS) |
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