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Mpuono language

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Mpuono
Mpuun
Native toDR Congo
Native speakers
(165,000 cited 1972)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3zmp
Glottologmpuo1241
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

  1. ^ Mpuono at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online