Mfinu language

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Mfinu
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
8,400 (2002) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmf
Glottolog mfin1238 [2]
B.83 [3]

Mfinu is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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References

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