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Mboi language

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Native to
  
Nigeria

Native speakers
  
(19,000 cited 1992)

Region
  
Adamawa State

ISO 639-3
  
moi

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Bambukic Yungur Mboi

Dialects
  
Gəna (Mboi) Banga Handa

Mboi (Mboire, Mboyi) is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. Its name is that of one of its dialects, the other two being Banga and Handa. These are rather divergent, Blench (2004) considers them to be distinct languages.

References

Mboi language Wikipedia