Mpuono language

Mpuono
Mpuun
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
unknown (165,000 cited 1972)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmp
Glottolog mpuo1241[2]
B.84 (ex-B.84a,84b,87)[3]

Mpuono, or Mpuun, is a Bantu language spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dialects include Mpuono, Mpuun (Mbuun, Kimbuun, Mbunda, Gimbunda).

References

  1. Mpuono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mpuono". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online