Bekwel | |
States: | Republic of Congo |
Date: | 2003–2007 in Congo and Gabon |
Ref: | e18 |
Speakers2: | unknown number in Cameroon |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantu (Zone A) |
Fam5: | Makaa–Njem + Kako (A.80–90) |
Fam6: | Ndzem–Bomwali |
Fam7: | Bekwilic |
Iso3: | bkw |
Glotto: | bekw1242 |
Glottorefname: | Bekwil |
Dia1: | Nkonabeeb |
Dia2: | Bekwil |
Guthrie: | A.85a,b |
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.