Kera language

Kera
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
50,000 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ker
Glottolog kera1255[2]

Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.

It was called "Tuburi" by Greenberg, a name shared with Tupuri.

Grammar

Kera is a subject–verb–object language, using prepositions. It uses exclusively borderline case-marking.

References

  1. Kera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kera". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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