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Kewa's elaborate pandanus avoidance register, which is used only in the forest during the karuka harvest, has been extensively documented. [2] The grammar is regularized and the vocabulary is restricted, with about a thousand words that differ from normal language.
The Engan languages, or more precisely Enga–Kewa–Huli or Enga – Southern Highland, are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches of the family are rather distantly related, but were connected by Franklin and Voorhoeve (1973).
On the Catholic saint's day of Santo Domingo in August 1598, conquistador Juan de Oñate had his first encounter with Kewa Pueblo. The Pueblo was subsequently named "Santo Domingo". [9] Its earliest recorded name was Gipuy. [10] According to Pueblo Council members, the local name in their Keres language has always been Kewa.
The two official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English, are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely spoken than English. [1] Swahili is a Bantu language native to East Africa and English is inherited from British colonial rule .
Keres (/ ˈ k eɪ r eɪ s /), [2] also Keresan (/ ˈ k ɛ r ə s ən /), is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico.Depending on the analysis, Keres is considered a small language family or a language isolate with several dialects.
Kewa may refer to: Kewa, a genus of plants belonging to the family Kewaceae, formerly placed in Hypertelis, Molluginaceae; Kéwa, a rural commune of the Cercle of Djenné in the Mopti Region of Mali; Kewa language of Papua New Guinea; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico, an Indian pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico, in the United States
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This region is primarily home to speakers of the Imbongu, Kewa, and Wiru languages. The Lowlands-which stretch across the southern part of the Southern Highlands province from the volcanic peaks of Mount Bosavi to include the oilfields of Lake Kutubu, and includes the language groups of Biami, Foe, and Fasu.