Khana language

Khana
Khana
Ogoni
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Khana, Rivers State
Native speakers	434,000 (2020)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Cross River Ogoni East Ogoni Khana; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ogo
Glottolog	khan1278

Khana (Kana), or Ogoni proper, is the prestige variety of the Ogoni languages of Rivers State, Nigeria. It is the lingua franca of speakers of the East Ogoni languages. It is the most dominant of the 5 Ogoni languages Khana, Tee, Gokana, Eleme, Baan spoken in southern part of Rivers State.

Phonology edit

The phonology of Khana is as follows:^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Labial- velar	Glottal
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	plain	lab.	Labial- velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	kʷ	k͡p	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ	ɡʷ	ɡ͡b
Affricate				d͡ʒ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s					h
Fricative	voiced	β	z		ɣ
Trill			r
Approximant			l	j			w

^ Khana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Joshua, Samuel Fubara (2017). Aspects of Phonological Variations in Kana. ASUU Journal of Humanities: A Journal of Research and Development, Vol 4, No. 2; December 2017: University of Port Harcourt. pp. 179–192.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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