Kembra language
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Kembra | |
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Native to | Western New Guinea |
Region | Jayawijaya Kabupaten, Okbibab Kecamatan, east of the Sogber River |
Ethnicity | 20–60% (2000?)[1] |
Native speakers
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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
- ↑ Kembra language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Kembra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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