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Mbo

A language of Democratic Republic of the Congo

ISO 639-3: zmw

Population	11,000 (1994 SIL).
Region	Orientale Province, Ituri District, Mambasa Territory, Bombo Collectivité.
Language map	Northern Democratic Republic of Congo
Alternate names	Imbo, Kimbo
Dialects	Ndaka [ndk], Budu [buu], Vanuma [vau], Nyali [nlj], and Mbo are more similar to each other than to other border Bantu languages. Lexical similarity: 87% with Ndaka, 78% with Budu, 77% with Vanuma, 76% with Nyali, 30% with Komo [kmw], 25% with Bhele [bhy], Kaiku [kkq], Bila [bip], Bera [brf].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, D, Bira-Huku (D.30)
Comments	Different from Mbo [mbo] of Cameroon, which is Bantu A.10. Traditional religion, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

WIT, Gert de, editor. 1995. Compendium of survey reports volume 1: Bira-Huku group of Bantu.  

WIT-HASSELAAR, Alie de, author. 1995. "Bira - Huku wordlists."

WIT-HASSELAAR, Alie de, author. 1995. "Ndaka / Mbo / Beeke survey report."