Kafoa, or Jafoo, is a Papuan language of Alor Island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. Although Kafoa speakers refer to both themselves and their language with the name "Kafoa", this word is not well known in the area.[2][3] Kafoa speakers are frequently multilingual, also speaking Malay, Klon and Abui. Children are typically initially taught Malay by their parents and later acquire Kafoa after having reached school age.[2]
| Kafoa | |
|---|---|
| Jafoo | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2013)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kpu |
| Glottolog | kafo1240 |
Phonology
editThe data in this section are taken from Baird (2017).[2]
Consonants
edit| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Semivowel | w | j ⟨y⟩ | ||||
| Liquid | lateral | l | ||||
| rhotic | r | |||||
Vowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| ʊ | ʊː | |||||
| o | ||||||
| Mid | ||||||
| ɛ | ɛː | ɔː | ||||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
External links
edit- Kafoa untuk Selamanya (Indonesian-language film)
- Kafoa at The Language Archive
References
edit- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ a b c Baird, Louise (2017). "Kafoa". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 2. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 55–108.
- ^ Kafoa at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
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