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] |
Pauwasi
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xkw |
| Glottolog | kemb1250 |
| ELP | Kembra |
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.[1]
References
- ^ Kembra language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ Kembra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
