Bembe | |
Nativename: | Kibembe |
States: | DR Congo, Tanzania |
Region: | Lake Tanganyika |
Speakers: | in DRC |
Date: | 1991 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone D, formerly D.50) |
Fam6: | Lega–Binja |
Fam7: | Lega–Bemba |
Lc2: | lgm |
Ld2: | Mwenga Lega |
Iso3: | bmb |
Glotto: | bemb1255 |
Glottorefname: | Bembe |
Guthrie: | D.54 |
Ethnicity: | Bembe people |
Bembe (Kibembe or Ebembe) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Tanzania. According to Ethnologue, it forms a dialect continuum with the Lega language through Mwenga Lega.