Mboi language

Mboi
Gena
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State
Native speakers	19,000 (1992)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Bambukic Yungur Mboi
Dialects	Gəna (Mboi) Banga Handa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`moi`
Glottolog	`mboi1246`^[2]

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 at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mboi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)

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