Kembra language

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Kembra
Native to Western New Guinea
Region Jayawijaya Kabupaten, Okbibab Kecamatan, east of the Sogber River
Ethnicity 20–60% (2000?)[1]
Native speakers
20 (2000)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xkw
Glottolog kemb1250[3]

Kembra is an unclassified Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea by some twenty persons. It is used by between 20% and 60% of the ethnic population and is no longer passed down to children.

In 2007, on a Papuan language website, a Mark Donohue reported that,

Murkim [and] Lepki [and] Kembra are, along with a number of other languages, unclassified groups living between the main cordillera and Mt. 6234, in the north of Papua near the PNG border (where 'near' = up to about 6 days' walk). They don't appear to be related to each other, based on wordlists, and they don't appear to show external affiliations.[1]

References

  1. Kembra language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Kembra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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