Mbo language (Congo)
The Mbo language (or Imbo, Kimbo) is spoken by the Mbo people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1994 there were about 11,000 speakers. It is lexically similar to the Ndaka and Budu, Vanuma and Nyali languages.[3]
Not to be confused with Mbo language (Zambia).
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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Orientale Province |
Ethnicity | Mbo people |
Native speakers | (11,000 cited 1994)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | zmw |
Glottolog | mbod1238 |
D.334 [2] |
References
- Mbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- "Mbo". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2011-10-13.
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