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Kewa, East

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: kjs

Population	45,000 (2000 census).
Region	Southern Highlands Province, Ialibu and Kagua districts.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 9, reference number 412
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Engan, Angal-Kewa
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 15%–25%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Grammar. NT: 2005.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Franklin, Joice A. 1965. "Kewa II: Higher level phonology."

Franklin, Karl J. 1963. "Kewa ethnolinguistic concepts of body parts."

Franklin, Karl J. 1964. "Kewa verb morphology."  

Franklin, Karl J. 1965. "Kewa clause markers."

Franklin, Karl J. 1965. "Kewa social organization."

Franklin, Karl J. 1967. "Kewa sentence structure."

Franklin, Karl J. 1967. "Names and aliases in Kewa."

Franklin, Karl J. 1968. The dialects of Kewa.

Franklin, Karl J. 1969. A grammar and dialect study of Kewa, New Guinea.

Franklin, Karl J. 1994. "Synchronic and diachronic observations on Kewa and proto-Engan deictics."

Franklin, Karl J. and Joice A. Franklin. 1962. "Kewa I: Phonological asymmetry."

Franklin, Karl J. and Joice A. Franklin. 1962. "The Kewa counting systems."

Pence, Alan R., editor. 1964. Verb studies in five New Guinea languages.  

Vernacular Publications

Introduction to the Kewa primer and reader series. 1963.

Kewa pre-primer. 1963.

Kewa primer 1-5. 1963.

Kewa primer 6-12. 1964.