Mbo language (Congo)

Mbo language (Congo)
Mbo
Spoken in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region Ituri Province
Ethnicity Mbo people
Native speakers 11,000  (date missing)
Language family
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmw

The Mbo language (or Imbo, Kimbo) is spoken by the Mbo people of Ituri Province, Mambasa Territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As of 1994 there were about 11,000 speakers. It is lexically similar to the Ndaka and Budu, Vanuma and Nyali languages.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Mbo". Ethnologue. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=zmw. Retrieved 2011-10-13. 

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