Kafoa, also known as Jafoo or Habollat, is a Papuan language of Alor Island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. Although Kafoa speakers refer to both themselves and their language with the name "Kafoa", this word is not well known in the area. Kafoa speakers are frequently multilingual, also speaking Alor Malay, Klon, and Abui, also Indonesian as the national language. Children are typically initially taught Alor Malay by their parents and later acquire Kafoa after having reached school age.
Classification Glottolog classifies the Kafoa language within the Nuclear Alor-Pantar subgroup of the Timor-Alor-Pantar language.
Phonology
The data in this section are taken from Baird (2017).
Consonants + Consonant phonemes Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Plosive voiceless voiced Fricative Semivowel Liquid lateral rhotic
Vowels
+Vowel phonemes Front Central Back High Mid Low
External links Kafoa untuk Selamanya (Indonesian-language film) Kafoa at The Language Archive
References