Mbo language (Congo)

Not to be confused with Mbo language (Zambia).

The Mbo language (or Imbo, Kimbo) is spoken by the Mbo people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1994 there were about 11,000 speakers. It is lexically similar to the Ndaka and Budu, Vanuma and Nyali languages.^[3]

Mbo
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Orientale Province
Ethnicity	Mbo people
Native speakers	(11,000 cited 1994)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone D.30) Nyali (Budu–Ndaka) Mbo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zmw
Glottolog	mbod1238
Guthrie code	D.334[2]

References

1. Mbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
3. "Mbo". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2011-10-13.