Mbole language

Mbole
Lombole
Native to DR Congo
Region Tshopo District
Ethnicity Mbole
Native speakers
unknown (100,000 cited 1971)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mdq
Glottolog mbol1247[2]
D.11[3]

Mbole is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Mbole people, with a population of about 100,000 as of 1971 living in the Tshopo District, southwest of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

References

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


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