Mbowe | |
Nativename: | Esimbowe |
States: | Zambia |
Region: | Okavango River |
Speakers: | 460 |
Date: | 2010 census |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone K) |
Fam6: | Kavango? (or maybe Luyana) |
Iso3: | mxo |
Glotto: | mbow1246 |
Glottorefname: | Mbowe |
Guthrie: | K.32 |
Mbowe (Esimbowe) is a Bantu language of Zambia.
Maho (2009) lists K.321 Mbume and K.322 Liyuwa as distinct but closely related languages. Mbowe had once been classified as a dialect of the divergent Luyana language.