Kwerisa language

Kwerisa
	Taogwe
Native to	Indonesia
Region	New Guinea
Ethnicity	spoken by 20–30% (2000?)[1]
Native speakers	15 to 50 (2000)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain Central Kwerisa; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kkb
Glottolog	kwer1264[2]

Kwerisa, or Taogwe, is a nearly extinct Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Most of the Kwerisa people have shifted to Kaiy, which is closely related.

References

Kwerisa at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwerisa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e15-1] Kwerisa at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kwerisa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.