Kerewe language

Kerebe
Kerewe
Ekikerebe
Native toTanzania
RegionLake Victoria
EthnicityKerewe people
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1987)
Language codes
ISO 639-3ked
Glottologkere1283
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.