Kpwe language

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