Mpuono language
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Mpuono | |
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Mpuun | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Native speakers | (165,000 cited 1972)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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ISO 639-3 | zmp |
Glottolog | mpuo1241 |
B.84 (ex-B.84a,84b,87) [2] |
Mpuono, or Mpuun, is a Bantu language spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dialects include Mpuono, Mpuun (Mbuun, Kimbuun, Gimbunda).
References
- ^ Mpuono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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