Bembe language (Ibembe)
Not to be confused with Bembe (Kibembe) language or Bemba language.
Bembe | |
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Ebeembe | |
Native to | DR Congo, Tanzania |
Region | Lake Tanganyika |
Native speakers | (250,000 in DRC cited 1991)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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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
- ↑ Bembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bembe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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