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Kera language

Kera language

9.9
A language spoken by people near Lake Tikem in Chad
  • noun
: idioma kera
  • The Kera language is spoken by communities living near Lake Tikem in Chad.

Examples

  • Many people in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region speak the Kera language.

  • Linguists study the Kera language to understand the diversity of Chadic languages in Africa.

  • Efforts are underway to preserve traditional stories told in the Kera language.

  • The Kera language is primarily spoken in Chad.

  • Linguists study the Kera language to understand the diversity of Chadic languages in Africa.

  • The Kera language is spoken by communities living near Lake Tikem in Chad.

  • Many people in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region speak the Kera language.

Synonyms

Kera
vsKera language
9.9

A language spoken in the southwest of Chad near Lake Tikem

has identical meaning but uses a longer descriptive phrase instead

Surface Forms

Kera language singular
Kera languages plural

Morphology

Kera + language

The phrase combines a proper name 'Kera' with the noun 'language' to denote the language called Kera; this is a directly compositional, referential naming pattern. Proper-name + 'language' constructions are cross-linguistically common and immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Kera language probably takes its name from the local people or village called Kera near Lake Tikem. Imagine a small Kera community speaking its own 'speech', and others simply calling that speech the Kera language, so the name means the language of those people.