Mbowe language

Mbowe
Mbowe
Esimbowe
Native to	Zambia
Region	Okavango River
Native speakers	460 (2010 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Kavango?; (or maybe Luyana) Mbowe; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mxo
Glottolog	mbow1246
Guthrie code	K.32
ELP	Mbowe

Mbowe (Esimbowe¹) is a Bantu language of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.321 Mbume and K.322 Liyuwa as distinct but closely related languages.² Mbowe had once been classified as a dialect of the divergent Luyana language.

References

Mbowe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

External links

ELAR archive of Preliminary Documentation of Mbowe

[e18-1] Mbowe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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Mbowe
Esimbowe
Native to	Zambia
Region	Okavango River
Native speakers	460 (2010 census)¹
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone K) Kavango? (or maybe Luyana) Mbowe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mxo`
Glottolog	`mbow1246`
Guthrie code	`K.32`²
ELP	Mbowe