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Kola language

Kola is one of the Aru languages, spoken in the northernmost part of the Aru Islands, mainly on Kola Island and in the northern and western part of Wokam Island.

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Kola
Native toIndonesia
RegionAru Islands
Native speakers
(7,700 cited 1995–2011)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kvv – Kola
kvp – Kompane
Glottologkola1292

Kola is one of the Aru languages,2 spoken in the northernmost part of the Aru Islands, mainly on Kola Island and in the northern and western part of Wokam Island.345

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References

  1. Kola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kompane at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Kola-Kompane". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Takata, Masahiro & Yuko Takata (1992). "Kola phonology". In Donald A. Burquest and Wyn D. Laidig (eds.), Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku (NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia, Vol. 34), 31-46. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
  4. Takata, Yuko (1992). "Word Structure and Reduplication in Kola". In Donald A. Burquest and Wyn D. Laidig (eds.), Descriptive Studies in Languages of Maluku (NUSA - Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages in Indonesia, Vol. 34), 47-68. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
  5. Schapper, Antoinette (2015). "Neuter gender in the languages of Aru". Wacana 16(1). 1-26.