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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Democratic Republic of the Congo > Mbole

Mbole

A language of Democratic Republic of the Congo

ISO 639-3mdq

Population  100,000 (Welmers 1971).
Region  Orientale Province, southwest of Kisangani.
Language maps  Northern Democratic Republic of Congo
Northern Democratic Republic of Congo
Alternate names   Lombole
Dialects  Keembo, Nkimbe (Nkembe), Yangonda, Yaisu, Inja, Botunga, Yaamba, Yaikole. Similar to Mituku [zmq].
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, D, Enya (D.10)
Comments  Apparently different from the Mbole dialect of Ombo [omi].