Gokana language

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Ogoni languages
Geographic
distribution:
Rivers State, Nigeria
Genetic
classification
:
Niger-Congo
 Atlantic-Congo
  Volta-Congo
   Benue-Congo
    Cross River
     Delta Cross
      Ogoni languages
Subdivisions:
Khana
Gokana
Tee (Tai)
Baan
Eleme


Gokana is a Ogoni language spoken by some 130,000 people in Rivers State, Nigeria.

[edit] References

  • "Gokana:A language of Nigeria" Ethnologue
  • "A global linguistic database:Gokana" Tower of Babel Project
  • Brosnahan, L. F. (1964) "Outlines of the Phonology of the Gokana Dialect of Ogoni" Journal of West African Languages 1(1): pp. 43-48
  • Brosnahan, L. F. (1967) "A Word List of the Gokana Dialect of Ogoni" Journal of West African Languages 4(2): pp. 43-52
  • Hyman, Larry M. and Comrie, B. (1981) "Logophoric Reference in Gokana" Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (Leiden) 3(1): pp. 19-37
  • Hyman, Larry M. (1982) "The representation of nasality in Gokana" In Hulst, Harry, van der and Smith, Norval (eds.) (1982) The Structure of Phonological Representations part, 1 Foris Publishing, Dordrecht, Holland, ISBN 90-70176-53-X
  • Yan Huang (2003) "Switch-reference in Amele and logophoric verbal suffix in Gokana: a generalized neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis" In Georgiafentis, M.; Haeberli, E, and Varlokosta, S. (eds.) (2003) Reading Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 7, pp. 53-76, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, Reading, UK
  • Bond, Oliver and Anderson, Gregory D. S. (2005) "Divergent Structure in Ogonoid Languages" In (2005) Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society Volume 31, Berkeley Linguistic Society, Berkeley, California