Mbowe language

Mbowe
Esimbowe
Native to Zambia
Region Okavango River
Native speakers
460 (2010 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mxo
Glottolog mbow1246[2]
K.32[3]

Mbowe (Esimbowe) is a Bantu language of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.321 Mbume and K.322 Liyuwa as distinct but closely related languages.[3] Mbowe had once been classified as a dialect of the divergent Luyana language.

References

  1. Mbowe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbowe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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