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Kwerba

A language of Indonesia (Papua)

ISO 639-3: kwe

Population	2,500 (1996 SIL).
Region	Upper Tor River area, northeast, headwaters of Apauwer River inland from Sarmi east to Berik language, Aurime, Munukania, Wamariri, Tatsewalem around Apiaweti villages.
Language map	Indonesia, Eastern Papua, reference number 175
Alternate names	Airmati, Armati, Koassa, Mataweja, Naibedj, Segar Tor, Serikenam, Tekutameso
Dialects	Serikenam, Sasawa, Nogukwabai. Lexical similarity: 64% with Bagusa [bqb].
Classification	Tor-Kwerba, Greater Kwerba, Kwerba, Nuclear
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 5%. Bible portions: 1986–1991.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Hunter-gatherers; some agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRILEY, Joyce E., author. 1977. "Some counting systems of Irian Jaya."

DE VRIES, James, author. 1988. "Kwerba view of the supernatural world."

DE VRIES, James; DE VRIES, Sandra, authors. 1997. "An overview of Kwerba verb morphology."

KALMBACHER, Carol J., author. 1983. "Came, female cannibal culture hero."

PIKE, Kenneth L.; SUHARNO, Ignatius, editors. 1976. From Baudi to Indonesian.

SILZER, Peter J., author. 1976. "A six-week phonemic analysis of Air Mati with a tentative orthography."

SILZER, Sheryl, author. 1976. "Six weeks to an overview of the grammar of a preliterate language: From discourse to morpheme in Air Mati (Irian Jaya)."

STERNER, Joyce K., author. 1994. Why analyze folktales? or what Came the female cannibal taught me.

Vernacular Publications

Buku kacatine. 1982.

Buku nemai. 1983.

Kurum buku Maba buku Kwerba nubukwem ano barukwe bora bangwasamote! 1-5. 1988.

Maba buku Kwerba nubukwem ano barukwe bora bangwasamote! 1. 1984.

Maba buku Kwerba nubukwem ano barukwe bora bangwasamote! 2-5. 1984.

Maba buku Kwerba nubukwem ano barukwe bora bangwasamote! 6. 1986.

Tatris tatapiwico Kwerpa mwenawe: cerita-cerita menarik dalam Bahasa Kwerba. 2000.