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Kera language

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Native to
  
Chad, Cameroon

ISO 639-3
  
ker

Native speakers
  
50,000 (1993)

Glottolog
  
kera1255

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic A Kwang (A.3) Kera

Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.

It was called "Tuburi" by Greenberg, a name shared with Tupuri.

Grammar

Kera is a subject–verb–object language, using prepositions. It uses exclusively borderline case-marking.

References

Kera language Wikipedia