- Gokana language
Infobox Language family
name=Ogoni language s
region=Rivers State ,Nigeria
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Cross River
fam6=Delta Cross
child1=Khana
child2=Gokana
child3=Tee (Tai)
child4=Baan
child5=ElemeGokana is a
Ogoni language spoken by some 130,000 people inRivers State ,Nigeria .References
* [https://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gkn "Gokana:A language of Nigeria" Ethnologue]
* [http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=%5Cdata%5Ctypol%5Ctypology&first=504 "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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