Mpiemo
| Mpiemo | ||
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Spoken in |
Central African Republic , Cameroon , Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 29,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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Mpiemo (also Bimu, Mbimou, Mbimu, Mbyemo, Mpo and Mpyemo) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 29,000 people in the Central African Republic , Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo .
It is in the Central African Republic in the Sangha-Mbaéré economic prefecture with around 24,000 speakers (1996 census), in Cameroon in the Boumba-et-Ngoko district in the Est province with around 5,000 speakers (1991 census) and the Republic of the Congo sporadically in the region Sangha spread.
Mpiemo is written in the Latin script .
classification
Mpiemo is a north-west Bantu language and belongs to the Makaa-Njem group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A80.
It has the dialects Jasoa (also Jasua), Bidjuki (also Bidjouki) and Mpyemo. Most speakers use the Jasoa dialect.