Social:Koko-Bera language

From HandWiki
Short description: Australian Aboriginal language
Gugubera
Koko Pera
Kok-Kaper
Native toAustralia
RegionCape York Peninsula, Queensland
EthnicityKokopera
Native speakers
18 (2021 census)[1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • Paman
    • Southwestern
      • Coastal
        • Koko Pera
          • Gugubera
Dialects
  • Koko Bera (Kok Kaber)
  • Kok Peponk (Koko Babangk)
  • Kok Wap?
  • Koko Beberam[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kkp – Gugubera
okg – Koko Babangk
Glottologgugu1254[3]
AIATSIS[4]Y85 Kok-Kaper, Y203 Kok-Paponk, Y204 Koko Beberam, Y209 Kok Wap
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Koko-Bera is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Dental Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive p k c t
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n
Rhotic ɾ ~ r
Lateral l
Approximant w j ɻ

Vowels

Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e ə o
Low a

[5][6]

References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/cultural-diversity-census/2021/. 
  2. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Gugubera". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gugu1254. 
  4. Y85 Kok-Kaper at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  5. Black, Paul; Koch, Grace (1983). Koko-Bera Island Style Music. In Aboriginal History, 7(1/2). pp. 157-172. 
  6. Black, Paul (2011). Co-narration of a Koko-Bera story: giants in Cape York Peninsula. In Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin and Mark Harvey and Rod Gardner (eds.), Indigenous language and social identity: papers in honour of Michael Walsh: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.. pp. 261-274. 

External links