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Native to | DR Congo, Tanzania |
Region | Lake Tanganyika |
Ethnicity | Bembe people |
Native speakers | (250,000 in DRC cited 1991) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
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bmb |
Glottolog |
bemb1255 |
D.54
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Bembe | |
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Kibembe | |
Native to | DR Congo, Tanzania |
Region | Lake Tanganyika |
Ethnicity | Bembe people |
Native speakers | (250,000 in DRC cited 1991) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
bmb |
Glottolog |
bemb1255 |
D.54
[2] |
Bembe (Kibembe or Ebembe) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Tanzania. According to Ethnologue, it forms a dialect continuum with the Lega language through Mwenga Lega.
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Bantu languages (Zones C–D) (by
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This Bantu language-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |