| Kafoa | |
|---|---|
| Jafoo | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Alor Island,East Nusa Tenggara |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2013)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kpu |
| Glottolog | kafo1240 |
Kafoa, orJafoo, is aPapuan language ofAlor Island in theAlor archipelago ofIndonesia. Although Kafoa speakers refer to both themselves and their language with the name "Kafoa", this word is not well known in the area.[2][3] Kafoa speakers are frequently multilingual, also speakingMalay,Klon andAbui. Children are typically initially taught Malay by their parents and later acquire Kafoa after having reached school age.[2]
The data in this section are taken from Baird (2017).[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Semivowel | w | j⟨y⟩ | ||||
| Liquid | lateral | l | ||||
| rhotic | r | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | iː | u | uː | ||
| ʊ | ʊː | |||||
| o | ||||||
| Mid | ||||||
| ɛ | ɛː | ɔː | ||||
| Low | a | aː | ||||
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