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Mbo language (Congo)

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Region
  
Orientale Province

Native speakers
  
11,000 (1994)

Ethnicity
  
Mbo people

ISO 639-3
  
zmw

Native to
  
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone D.30) Nyali (Budu–Ndaka) Mbo

The Mbo language (or Imbo, Kimbo) is spoken by the Mbo people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1994 there were about 11,000 speakers. It is lexically similar to the Ndaka and Budu, Vanuma and Nyali languages.

References

Mbo language (Congo) Wikipedia