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Mbosi

A language of Congo

ISO 639-3: mdw

Population	108,000 (2000).
Region	Cuvette region, Owando and Mossaka districts, south of Owando; Plateaux region, Abala District.
Language map	Congo, reference number 29
Alternate names	Embosi, Mbochi, Mboshe, Mboshi
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, C, Mbosi (C.30)
Language use	Spoken only. French is used for reading and writing. All domains. Few younger users. Are proud of Mbosi. Most also use Lingala [lin], French, or Teke-Tege [teg].
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BEAPAMI, Roch Paulin; CHATFIELD, Ruth; KOUARATA, Guy; WALDSCHMIDT, Andrea, compilers. 2000. Dictionnaire Mbochi - Français (Nzɛmbisi y’imbɔsi m’embɔsi la leporo).

BEDROSIAN, Patricia L., author. 1996. "The Mboshi noun class system."

STARWALT, Coleen Grace Anderson, author. 2008. The acoustic correlates of ATR harmony in seven- and nine-vowel African languages: a phonetic inquiry into phonological structure.  

Vernacular Publications

Imbamba l’onɔɔ olaa (La grenouille à grande guelle). 2000.

Lekasi m’iyea l’itanga l’ikyɛmbɛ l’embɔsi (Comment lire et écrire la langue mbochie: un manuel d’exercices: pour ceux qui lisent et écrivent dejà la langue française). 2001.

Les animaux du Congo (Munukutuba - Beembe - Laari - Mbochi - Teke - Dibole - Bɛkwɛl - Lingala). 2002.

Ngala adi obvura odzeema la nyinga kaa: bana báádi la ngaa y’osɛlɛ. 1999.

Obhemba máádzwa imbamba (Le voyage de la grenouille). 2003.

Ondɔmbi m’embɔsi lekasi l’iyela. 2002.