Bekwil
| Bekwil | ||
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo , Cameroon , Gabon | |
| speaker | 12,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Bekwil (also Bakwele, Bekwie, Bakwil, Bekwel and Okpele) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 12,000 people in the Republic of the Congo , Cameroon and Gabon .
It is widespread in the Republic of the Congo in the Sangha region with around 9,600 speakers (2003 census), in Gabon in the Ogooué-Ivindo province with around 2,400 speakers (2000 census) and in Cameroon in the Boumba-et-Ngoko district in the Est province .
Bekwil is written in the Latin script .
classification
Bekwil is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Makaa-Njem group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A80.
She has the dialect Esel (also Essel).
Approximately 85% of the vocabulary is similar to the vocabulary of the Koonzime language .