Kerewe language

Kerewe, or Kerebe, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, the largest inland island in Africa.

Kerebe
Kerewe
Ekikerebe
Native to	Tanzania
Region	Lake Victoria
Native speakers	(100,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Haya–Jita (J.20) Kerebe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ked
Glottolog	kere1283
Guthrie code	JE.24[2]

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.[3]

See also

• Kerewe people

References

1. Kerebe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
3. Odden, David. "Bantu Phonology" (PDF). pp. 19–20. Retrieved 7 October 2014.