Koki (Konke, Kokak), or Koki Naga, is an unclassified
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language spoken in Burma. Speakers are included under the wider
Naga
Naga or NAGA may refer to:
Mythology
* Nāga, a serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions
* Naga Kingdom, in the epic ''Mahabharata''
* Phaya Naga, mythical creatures believed to live in the Laotian stretch of the Mekong Riv ...
ethnicity. It has been documented in Shintani (2018).
[Shintani Tadahiko. 2018. ''The Kokak language''. Linguistic survey of Tay cultural area (LSTCA) no. 119. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).]
Classification
Koki is currently unclassified within Tibeto-Burman. ''Ethnologue'' (21st edition) notes that Koki shares 19%–32% lexical similarity with
Tangkhul Naga txin Myanmar, 23% with
Akyaung Ari Naga qy and 22%–24% with
Jejara Naga zn
Distribution
It is spoken in 10 villages of southern
Leshi Township
Leshi Township or Layshi Township ( my, လေရှီးမြို့နယ်) is a mountainous ,
Hkamti District
Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes Naga Hills District) is a district in northern Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the town of Singkaling Hkamti. Townships
The district consists of the two townships:
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,
Sagaing Region
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
, Myanmar.
References
Sources
*Barkman, Tiffany. 2014
''A descriptive grammar of Jejara (Para Naga)'' MA thesis, Chiang Mai: Payap University.
Languages of Myanmar
Kuki-Chin–Naga languages
Unclassified Sino-Tibetan languages
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