Bembe language (Ibembe)

Not to be confused with Bembe (Kibembe) language or Bemba language.
Bembe
Ebeembe
Native to DR Congo, Tanzania
Region Lake Tanganyika
Native speakers
(250,000 in DRC cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bmb
Glottolog bemb1255[2]
D.54[3]

Bembe (Ibembe) 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. It has no connection with the Bembe (Kibembe) language of the Republic of Congo.

References

  1. Bembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bembe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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