Wérè

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Situation

Wérè is spoken by approximately 100 people (2015) living in two villages, Kanfok and Tokwa, located between the Bensbach and Morehead rivers in the Morehead subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Western province (Evans et al. forthcoming, q.v. Carroll 2014: 3, Döhler 2015: 3.)

Sources

Lambden (1926) (unobtained)

Williams (1936: 30-31) 7 comparative terms for Kanifok after Lambden

Hull (1990) 100 comparative terms for Kanfok village

O'Rear (1991) 118 comparative terms for Randa of Tokwa village

Bouvé (2000) 163 comparative terms for Were/Wəˈrɛ of Tokʷo village

Döhler (2015) 237 comparative terms for Wérè of Indorodoro (?) village in Carroll ed. (2015)

Evans, Arka, Carroll, Döhler, Kashima, Mittag, Quinn, Siegel, Tama and van Tongeren (forthcoming) miscellaneous notes and forms including free pronouns for Wérè

Phonology

[under construction]

Pronouns

[under construction]

Verbal morphology

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