Mbowe language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Zambia}} {{Infobox language |name=Mbowe |nativename=''Esimbowe'' |states=[[Zambia]] |region=[[Okavango River]] |speakers=460 |date=2010 census |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Southern Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] ([[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages#Zone K|Zone K]]) |fam6=[[Kavango languages|Kavango]]?<br>(or maybe [[Luyana language|Luyana]]) |iso3=mxo |glotto=mbow1246 |glottorefname=Mbowe |guthrie=K.32 }}

'''Mbowe''' (''Esimbowe''<ref name=e18/>) is a [[Bantu language]] of Zambia.

Maho (2009) lists K.321 Mbume and K.322 Liyuwa as distinct but closely related languages.<ref name="Guthrie"/> Mbowe had once been classified as a dialect of the divergent [[Luyana language]].

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== External links == * [http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0279 ELAR archive of Preliminary Documentation of Mbowe] {{Languages of Zambia}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}} [[Category:Bantu languages]] [[Category:Languages of Zambia]] [[Category:Languages of Namibia]] [[Category:Kavango languages]]