Native to Tanzania Native speakers (100,000 cited 1987) Glottolog kere1283 | Region Lake Victoria ISO 639-3 ked | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Northeast Bantu
Great Lakes Bantu
Haya–Jita (J.20)
Kerebe | ||
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.
References
Kerewe language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA