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Kwerba

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Situation

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The Kwerba family consists of perhaps five languages spoken inland from the coast between the Mamberamo river to the west and the Tor river to the east in Indonesia's Papua province, with the upper Apauwar river in roughly the center of their range.

Subclassification

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Sources

Anonymous (1913: 254-259) comparative vocabulary of Koassa Kamboi (Ramboi)

Anonymous (1913) comparative vocabulary of Armatti printed in Stokhof ed. (1983: 81-84)

Le Roux (1926) vocabulary of Kauwerawet

Galis (1955) 20 comparative terms for Kamboi-ramboi after Anonymous (1913) and Kauwerawetj after Le Roux (1926)

Giël (1959) Kaowera (unobtained)

Oosterwal (1961: 274-277, 285-286) comparative vocabulary of Naidjbeedj

van Eechoud (1962: 189-199) vocabulary and phrases of Kaowerawédj

Silzer (1976: 15-28) grammar of Air Mati

Silzer (1976: 192-201) phonology of Air Mati

Voorhoeve (1975: 106) 40 comparative terms for Lake-Plain Kwerba after Bromley (n.d.), Kaowerawedj after van Eechoud (1962) and Airmati after Anceaux (n.d.)

de Vries (1991) Kwerba (unobtained)

de Vries and de Vries (1997) verbal morphology of Kwerba of Aurimi village

Smits and Voorhoeve (1998: 22-233) comparative vocabularies of Airmati after Oosterwal, Kwerba after van der Leeden, Kaowera after Giël, Pionier-Bivak after Buase and Kwerba after Le Roux (1926)

Kim (1999) phonology of Kwerba of Aurimi village (unobtained)

Donohue (2005: 427-428) reflexes of proto-Kwerba /*s/ with eight terms from Anggreso, Kwerba, Kasonaweja, Trimuris and Bagusa villages

Historical phonology

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Pronouns

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Verbal morphology

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