Kerewo language

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Kerewo is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea.

Kerewo
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionOmati River
Native speakers
1,090 in the local area (2011)[1]
Kiwaian
  • Kerewo
Language codes
ISO 639-3kxz
Glottologkere1286

Some portions of the Bible were translated into Kerewo. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the Epistles of Ephesians, Philippians and 1 John were translated as "Nouri buka nou'a airoa" and published in the Goaribari dialect of Kerewo in 1941.

References

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  1. ^ Kerewo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)