Kembra language
| Kembra | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Western New Guinea |
| Region | Jayawijaya Kabupaten, Okbibab Kecamatan, east of the Sogber River |
| Ethnicity | 50 (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | 20 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xkw |
| Glottolog |
kemb1250[2] |
The Kembra language is an unclassified Papuan language spoken in Western New Guinea by some twenty persons. It appears to be used by 20% to 60% of the ethnic population and is no longer passed down to children, which makes it an endangered language
In 2007, on a Papuan language website, a Mark Donohue reported that,
- Murkim [and] Lepki [and] Kembra are, along with a number of other languages, unclassified groups living between the main cordillera and Mt. 6234, in the north of Papua near the PNG border (where 'near' = up to about 6 days' walk). They don't appear to be related to each other, based on wordlists, and they don't appear to show external affiliations.