Kpwe language should not be confused with Mboko language.
Kpwe | |
Nativename: | Mokpwe |
States: | Cameroon |
Ethnicity: | Kpwe, Mboko |
Speakers: | 25,000 |
Date: | 2000–2014 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone A) |
Fam6: | Sawabantu (A.20) |
Dia1: | Kole |
Dia2: | Mboko |
Lc1: | bri |
Ld1: | Kpwe |
Lc2: | bqm |
Ld2: | Mboko (Wumboko) |
Lc3: | kme |
Ld3: | Kole (Bakole) |
Guthrie: | A.21,22,231 |
Glotto: | mokp1239 |
Glottoname: | Mokpwe |
Glotto2: | wumb1241 |
Glottoname2: | Wumboko |
Glottorefname2: | Wumboko-Bubia |
Glotto3: | bako1250 |
Glottoname3: | Bakole |
Elp: | 538 |
Elpname: | 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.