Kerewe language
Kerebe | |
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Kerewe | |
Ekikerebe | |
Native to | Tanzania |
Region | Lake Victoria |
Native speakers | unknown (100,000 cited 1987)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ked |
Glottolog |
kere1283 [2] |
JE.24 [3] |
Kerewe, or Kerebe, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, the largest inland island in Africa.
Kerewe phonology prohibits vowel sequences: if a vowel sequence arises in the underlying representation of a phrase, the sequence becomes either a long vowel or a glide followed by a long vowel in the surface representation.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Kerebe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kerewe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Odden, David. "Bantu Phonology" (PDF). pp. 19–20. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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