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Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.

Kera
Native to	Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic East Chadic East Chadic A Kwang (A.3) Kera
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ker
Glottolog	kera1255

It was called "Tuburi" by Joseph Greenberg, a name shared with Tupuri.

In Cameroon, Kera is spoken by small, isolated and scattered groups in the southern departments of Mayo-Danay (Wina commune) and Diamaré (Ndoukoula district) in the Far North Region. It is mainly spoken in Chad. In Cameroon, the main group is near the border, south of Viri. There are about 6,000 speakers in Cameroon.[2]

Grammar

Kera is a subject–verb–object language, using prepositions. It uses exclusively borderline case-marking.

Phonology

The phonetic symbols and charts used are from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Consonants

Consonants[3]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			h
	voiced	v	z
Approximant			l	j
Rhotic			r

Vowels[4][5]

Kera's vowels are, including allophones:

	front	central	back
close	i	ɨ	u
mid	e / ɛ		o / ɔ
open	a / ə

But can also be expressed as:

• High The tongue is positioned near the top of the mouth.
• Round The lips are rounded while the vowel is pronounced.
• Front The tongue is positioned at the front of the mouth.

	not round front	not round central	round back
high	i	ɨ	u
not high	e / ɛ	a / ə	o / ɔ

Kera has vowel harmony.

In Kera, many words are required to only have vowels in the high or not high vowel class. For example, a word may have any of the vowels i ə u or any of the vowels e a o, but words containing both, e.g. words with i and o, are prohibited.

References

External links

• Research on stress in Kera

На других языках

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- [en] Kera language

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[fr] Kéra (langue)

Le kéra est une langue tchadique parlée principalement au Tchad, également au Cameroun dans la Région de l'Extrême-Nord, le département du Mayo-Danay, au sud-est de Doukoula, par les populations kéra.

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