Kera language


Kera is an East Chadic language spoken by 45,000 people in Southwest Chad and 6,000 people in North Cameroon.
It was called "Tuburi" by Greenberg, a name shared with Tupuri.

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

Consonants

Vowelshttps://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3aa8/052c008ef2d5b38f0146cf59c5d2641b8795.pdf ATR allophones or undershoot in Kera? Retrieved 2019-06-02.

Kera's vowels are, including allophones:
But can also be expressed as:
not round
front		not round
central		round
back
highiɨu
not highe / ɛa / əo / 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.