Bekwarra
Bekwarra ( Ebekwara ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria (State of Cross River ) | |
speaker | 100,000 (1989) | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
bkv |
The language Bekwarra jezik (ISO 639-3: bkv; also bekworra, ebekwara, yakoro) is a Nigerian language spoken by a total of 100,000 people in the state of Cross River in the local government district of Ogoja .
The language is one of the cross-river languages , and within that one of the Bendi languages.
The language uses the Latin script , there are also radio programs in the Bekwarra language. However, the media are dominated by the English language .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bkv
- ↑ (1989 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue