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Gokana (Gòkánà) is an Ogoni language spoken by some 130,000 people in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Gokana
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Gokana, Rivers State
Native speakers	(100,000 cited 1989)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Ogoni East Ogoni Gokana
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gkn
Glottolog	goka1239

Phonology

Gokana has been argued to lack syllables, a radical claim because syllables are traditionally considered to be universal. According to Hyman (1983), Gokana "does not organise its consonants and vowels into syllables." Hyman later amended his claim to say that "the syllable plays at best a minor role in the prosodic organisation of Gokana" and is perhaps not activated to express any generalisations in the language.[2]

Writing system

Gokana alphabet

Uppercase letters	A	B	D	E	Ẹ	F	G	Gb	Gy	I	K	Kp	Ky	L	M	N	Ng	Nv	Ny	O	Ọ	P	S	T	V	Z
Lowercase letters	a	b	d	e	ẹ	f	g	gb	gy	i	k	kp	ky	l	m	n	ng	nv	ny	o	ọ	p	s	t	v	z

Nasal vowels are indicated by a tilde and tones are indicated by an acute or grave accent:

• The high tone is indicated by an acute accent : á, ã́, é, ẹ́, ẽ́, í, ĩ́, ó, ọ́, ṍ, ú, ṹ, ḿ ;
• The low tone is indicated by a grave accent  : à, ã̀, è, ẹ̀, ẽ̀, ì, ĩ̀, ò, ọ̀, õ̀, ù, ũ̀, m̀ ;
• The middle tone is indicated with no diacritic.

References

• "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

На других языках

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- [en] Gokana language

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[fr] Gokana

Le gokana est une langue tonale appartenant au groupe ogoni de la famille des langues nigéro-congolaises parlée au Nigeria.

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[ru] Гокана

Гокана (Gokana) — кегбоидный язык, на котором говорит народ с одноимённым названием, проживающий РМУ Гокана и Огони штата Риверс в Нигерии. Письмо основано на латинице, которая используется с 1992 года, преподаётся в начальной школе. Также имеет диалекты бодо, бому, дере и кибангха.

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