Mbowe language explained

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.

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