Mbowe language
Mbowe | |
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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
- ↑ Mbowe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbowe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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