Kehu language

Kehu
Native to	West Papua
Region	Wapoga River, in the foothills inland from Cenderawasih Bay
Native speakers	200 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Unclassified (Geelvink Bay?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`khh`
Glottolog	`kehu1238`^[2]

Kehu (Keu) is an unclassified and nearly extinct language of New Guinea.

Mark Donohue (2007) said that Kehu is "probably a Geelvink Bay language, but noone knows enough about those languages, systematically, to say this with confidence for [any of them] beyond Barapasi, T(ar)unggare and Bauzi"

References

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

Kamholz, David. 2012. The Keuw isolate: Preliminary materials and classification. In Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact, and classification of Papuan languages, 243–268. Special issue of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.

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