Keijar

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

Keijar (Keder) is spoken by 374 people (2004) living in two villages, Keder Lama (“old Keder”) and Keder Baru (“new Keder”) along the north coast of the Pantai Timur district of Sarmi regency in Indonesia's Papua province. Keijar is the name speakers use for their villages and their language (Lee and Wambaliau 2004: 2-3, 4.)

Smits and Voorhoeve eds. (1994: 18-266) three comparative vocabularies of Kwesten of Keder village after two unnamed constables and Anceaux respectively

Lee and Wambaliau (2004: 40-48) 237 comparative terms and (pp. 57-62) 21 sentences for Keijar of Keder Lama village

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Lee and Wambaliau (2004: 41) give free pronouns for Keijar of Keder Lama as follows:

Nothing is known about Keijar verbal morphology besides what little can be discerned from the examples given in Smits and Voorhoeve (1994: 18-266) and Lee and Wambaliau (2004: 40-48, 57-62.)