Kembra language

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.

References

  1. Kembra language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Kembra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kembra". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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