Lombo language

Lombo
Native to	Republic of Zaire, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Isangi
Ethnicity	Turumbu people
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1971) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Soko–Kele (C.50–60) Lombo; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	loo
Glottolog	lomb1260 [2]
Guthrie code	C.54 [3]

Last updated April 20, 2019

The Lombo language (also called Olombo, Turumbu, Ulumbu) is in the Kele language group of Bantu languages. It is spoken by the Turumbu people of the Tshopo District, Isangi Territory, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1]

The Bantu languages technically the Narrow Bantu languages, as opposed to "Wide Bantu", a loosely defined categorization which includes other "Bantoid" languages, are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu peoples throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Turumbu people live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mostly in the Isangi Territory of the Tshopo District on both sides of the Congo River. They speak the Lombo language. As of 1971 their population was estimated to be 10,000. A more recent estimate put the population at 32,000.

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References

1 2 Lombo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lombo". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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[e18-1] 1 2 Lombo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lombo". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-3] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online