Mbowe language

Mbowe
Esimbowe
Native to Zambia
Region Okavango River
Native speakers
 460  (2010 census)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

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. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbowe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online