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
- ↑ Kembra language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Kembra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kembra". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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