Bekwarra is member of the Bendi group of Southern Bantoid languages. It is spoken by about 100,000 people in Cross River State and Benue State in the southeast of Nigeria. In particular, it is spoken in Bekwarra Local Government Area (LGA) in the north of Cross River State, and in Vande Ikya LGA in the south of Benue State.
Bekwarra is also known as Bekworra, Bekworrah, Yakoro or Ebekwara. A way to write it with the Latin alphabet was developed in 1964, and parts of the Bible have been translated into Bekwarra.
Download an alphabet chart for Bekwarra (Excel)
Details of the Bekwarra alphabet (PDF) provided by Wolfram Siegel
K’irite kin ukaani Oga Ashu a chi k’iye k’uchu imin i kpa uhum mang hum unyang okulo irite.
Udom imin kin a ka be kwa ileta k’abo. A ka de he dee ì kpe ileta ámín ang’e chom yè k’Lagos. Oga a kpe ileta angin ka ne he achi dangg. A ka kung de udim imin dee ileta angin i ba yè k’abo ungwite imin Samuel ang’i yi k’Lagos.
Source: Akwaji a ye kʼLagos (Akwaji goes to Lagos)
Information about Bekwarra | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Bekwarra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekwarra_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekwarra_(langue)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekwarra
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бекварра
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bkv
http://www.language-archives.org/language/bkv
https://worldmission.media/languages-of-the-world/bekwarra
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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