Mbo (language, Cameroon)
| Mbo | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 45,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Mbo (also Mboo and Sambo) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 45,000 people in Cameroon .
It is common in the Moungo district in the Littoral province and the Menoua district in the Ouest province . Around 25% of the second language speakers can read and write Mbo.
Mbo is written in the Latin script .
classification
is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Ngoe languages within the Lundu-Balong group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A10.
It has the dialects Melong (also Eho Mbo), Bareko (also Ehow Mba and Minahe), Kekem (also Nlembuu) and Santchou (also Nla Mboo).