Mbole language

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Mbole
Lombole
Native to DR Congo
Region Tshopo District
Ethnicity Mbole
Native speakers
 (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]

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References

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


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