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
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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
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