Mgbo language explained

Mgbo
Also Known As:Mgbolizhia
States:Nigeria
Region:Ebonyi State, Benue State
Ethnicity:Mgbo people
Speakers:190,000
Date:2012
Ref:e18
Script:Latin
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Volta-Congo
Fam4:Volta–Niger
Fam6:Igboid
Fam7:Nuclear Igboid
Fam8:Izi–Ezaa–Ikwo–Mgbo
Iso3:gmz
Glotto:mgbo1238
Glottorefname:Mgbo

The Mgbo language, 'Mgbolizhia', is an Igboid language spoken by the Mgbo people in Ebonyi state in Nigeria. It forms a dialect cluster with closely related Izii, Ezza, and Ikwo languages though they are only marginally mutually intelligible.