Kerewe
Kerewe is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Tanzania, by about 100 thousand people.
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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.
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Words in Kerewe
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | ntu* | |
| name | zina* | |
| eye | so* | |
| ear | twi* | |
| nose | nindo* | |
| tooth | ino* | |
| tongue | limi* | |
| hand | kono* | |
| blood | sagama* | |
| bone | gufwa* | |
| skin | hu* | |
| knee | rwi* | |
| breast | bere* | |
| liver | ni* | |
| water | amenzi | |
| fire | liro* | |
| sun | zoba* | |
| star | nenezi* | |
| stone | bale* | |
| mountain | banga* | |
| tree | ti* | |
| leaf | babi* | |
| night | ro* | |
| dog | bwa* | |
| fish | nfwi* | |
| louse | nda* | |
| one | mo* | |
| two | bili* | |
| drink | nwa* | |
| see | bona* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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