The half dozen Kwerba languages form a small
language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in h ...
spoken in
Jayapura Regency
Jayapura Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of Indonesia. It is situated to the west of but does not include the city of Jayapura. Previously covering most of the north-east portion of Papua province, it was reduce ...
of Indonesian West Papua.
Languages
The languages are,
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Bagusa
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Kauwera (Kaowerawedj)
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Kwerba (Sasawa, Air Mati)
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Kwerba Mamberamo (Nopuk)
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Trimuris
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Kwerba
{{Papuan languages
Languages of Indonesia
Kwerbic languages