Kerewe language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Tanzania}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kerebe

|altname=Kerewe

|nativename=Ekikerebe

|states=Tanzania

|region=Lake Victoria

|ethnicity=Kerewe people

|speakers=100,000

|date=1987

|ref = e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu

|fam6=Northeast Bantu

|fam7=Great Lakes Bantu

|fam8=West Nyanza

|fam9=Rutara

|iso3=ked

|glotto=kere1283

|glottorefname=Kerewe

|guthrie=JE.24

}}

Kerewe, or Kerebe, is a Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken on Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria, the largest inland island in Africa.

Kerewe phonology prohibits vowel sequences: if a vowel sequence arises in the underlying representation of a phrase, the sequence becomes either a long vowel or a glide followed by a long vowel in the surface representation.{{cite web | url=http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~odden/BantuPhonology.pdf | title=Bantu Phonology | access-date=7 October 2014 | author=Odden, David | author-link=David Odden | pages=19–20 | archive-date=4 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112235/http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~odden/BantuPhonology.pdf | url-status=dead }}