Kwerisa language

Kwerisa
Taogwe
Native to Indonesia
Region New Guinea
Ethnicity spoken by 20–30% (2000?)[1]
Native speakers
 15 to 50 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kkb
Glottolog kwer1264[2]

Kwerisa, or Taogwe, is a nearly extinct Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Most of the Kwerisa people have shifted to Kaiy, which is closely related.

References

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