Mbowe language

Mbowe
Esimbowe
Native to	Zambia
Region	Okavango River
Native speakers	(2,700 Mbowe proper cited 1969 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Kavango? (or maybe Luyana) Mbowe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mxo`
Guthrie code	`K.32`^[1]

Mbowe (Esimbowe) is a Bantu language of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.321 Mbume and K.322 Liyuwa as distinct but closely related languages.^[1] Mbowe had once been classified as a dialect of the divergent Luyana language.

References

^ ^a ^b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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Last modified on 1 February 2013, at 02:27