Bekwil language
| Bekwel | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Republic of Congo |
Native speakers |
14,000 (2003–2007 in Congo and Gabon)[1] unknown number in Cameroon[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bkw |
| Glottolog |
bekw1242[2] |
A.85a,b[3] | |
Bekwel (Bekwil) is a Bantu language of the Republic of the Congo. There are some 10,000 speakers there, with a quarter that number across the border in Gabon, and perhaps a similar on the opposite side in Cameroon. It is rather close to Nzime (Koonzime).
Maho (2009) considers Nkonabeeb (Konabembe) to be a dialect of Bekwil rather than of Mpumpong.
References
- 1 2 Bekwel at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bekwil". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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