Kerewe language
| Kerebe | |
|---|---|
| Kerewe | |
| Ekikerebe | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Region | Lake Victoria |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1987)[1] |
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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)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kerewe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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