Kwerba languages

Kwerba
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationFoja Range
  • West (Greater Kwerbic)
    • Apauwar–Kwerba (Kwerbic)
      • Kwerba
Glottologkwer1262

The half dozen Kwerba languages form a small language family spoken in Jayapura Regency of Indonesian West Papua.

Languages

The languages are,

  • Bagusa
  • Kauwera (Kaowerawedj)
  • Kwerba (Sasawa, Air Mati)
  • Kwerba Mamberamo (Nopuk)
  • Trimuris

References


  • Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Kwerba
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Papuan language families
(Palmer 2018 classification)
Trans-New Guinea
subgroups
Central Papua, Indonesia
Southeast Papua, Indonesia
Southwest Papua New Guinea
Central Papua New Guinea
Papuan Peninsula
Eastern Nusantara
families and isolatesBird's Head Peninsula
families and isolatesNorthern Western New Guinea
families and isolatesCentral Western New Guinea
families and isolatesSepik-Ramu basin
families and isolates
Torricelli subgroups
Sepik subgroups
Ramu subgroups
Gulf of Papua and southern New Guinea
families and isolatesBismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands
families and isolatesRossel Island
isolateProposed groupingsProto-language