Jofotek
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
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Jofotek is spoken in at least two villages, Biridua and Srum, … Jofotek is the name Biridua residents use for their language (Lee and Wambaliau 2004: 1, Lewis, Paul, Simons and Fennig eds 2014 after unattributed surveyor(s).) Comparison of Lee and Wambaliau's Jofotek to colonial-era vocabularies shows it to be the same language as Oosterwal's (1961) Mander.
Sources
Oosterwal (1961: 273-277) 78 comparative terms for Mander and (pp. 283-284) …
Voorhoeve (1975: 107) 37 comparative terms for Mander after Anceaux (n.d.)
Stokhof ed. (1983: 108-115) unattributed comparative vocabulary of Foya
Smits and Voorhoeve eds. (1994: 18-266) comparative vocabulary of Mander after Oosterwal (n.d.)
Lee and Wambaliau (2004: 49-62) 239 comparative terms and 21 sentences for Jofotek of Biridua village
Phonology
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Pronouns
Lee and Wambaliau (2004: 50) give free pronouns for Jofotek of Biridua as follows:
| 1 sg. | aj |
| 2 sg. | e'me |
| 3 sg. | di'gan |
| 1 pl. | aj-eme |
| 2 pl. | eme-gan |
| 3 pl. | eme-gan |
Verbal morphology
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