Mbali | |
States: | Angola |
Speakers: | ? |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu |
Fam6: | Southwest Bantu? |
Fam7: | (?) |
Iso3: | none |
Iso3comment: | (covered by Umbundu) |
Glotto: | none |
Guthrie: | R.103 |
Mbali (Olumbali, Kimbari) is a minor Bantu language of Angola, spoken on the coast on the southern edge of the large Umbundu-speaking area and the northern end of the uninhabited Namib desert. Its classification is unclear. Arends et al. suggest it might turn out to be a Kimbundu–Umbundu mixed language, though it is nowhere near Kimbundu territory.[1]