Kaera language
Kaera is a Papuan language spoken on the northeastern coast of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. It belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language family. Kaera is used alongside Indonesian in religious contexts, but Kaera is not used in education.
| Kaera | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
Native speakers | 5,500 (2014)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jka |
| Glottolog | kaer1234[2] |
Phonology
All the information in this section is from Klamer's sketch grammar.[3]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | ||||
| Fricative | s | x | (h) | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||
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References
- "The Alor-Pantar languages".
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaera". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Klamer, Marian (2014). "Kaera". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1: Sketch Grammars. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 97–146.
External links
- Kaera Abangiwang Collection at The Language Archive
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For a list of words relating to Kaera language, see the Kaera language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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