Native to Cameroon Native speakers 25,000 (2000–2014) | Ethnicity Kpwe people Dialects Kole
Mboko | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu (Zone A)
Sawabantu (A.20)
Kpwe ISO 639-3 Variously:
bri – Kpwe
bqm – Mboko (Wumboko)
kme – Kole (Bakole) | ||
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
Kpwe language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA