Kera language

Kera language

language
name=Kera
states=Chad, Cameroon
speakers=50,000
iso3=ker
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=East Chadic
fam4="A"
fam5="A.3"

Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.

Grammar

Kera is a Subject Verb Object language, using prepositions. It uses exclusively borderline case-marking.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ker Ethnologue entry for Kera]
* [http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/afro-asiatic/africa/ker/view Rosetta project entry for Kera]
* [http://www.language-museum.com/k/kera.htm Translation of the Genesis into Kera]
* [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/research/Pearce,%20Phonology%202006.pdf Research on stress in Kera]


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