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.