Kpwe language

Not to be confused with Mboko language (Congo).
Kpwe
Mokpwe
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Kpwe people
Native speakers
25,000 (2000–2014)[1]
Dialects
Kole
Mboko
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bri  Kpwe
bqm  Mboko (Wumboko)
kme  Kole (Bakole)
Glottolog mokp1239  (Mokpwe)[2]
wumb1241  (Wumboko)[3]
bako1250  (Bakole)[4]
A.21,22,231[5]
People Bekpak
Language Rikpa

Kpwe (Mokpwe) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is mutually intelligible with Kole, and probably with Mboko (Wumboko) as well.

There are multiple variants of the name: based on 'Kpwe' (Bakpwe, Mokpwe), on 'Kpe' (Mokpe), on 'Kweɾi' (Kwedi, Kweli, Kwili, Kwiri, Bakwedi, Bakwele, Bakweri, Vakweli, Bekwiri), as well as Ujuwa, Vambeng.

References

  1. Kpwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mboko (Wumboko) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kole (Bakole) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mokpwe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wumboko". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bakole". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  5. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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