This article is about the language of Nigeria. It is not to be confused with the Mbe' language of Cameroon.
Mbe
M̀bè
Pronunciation
[m̀bè]
Native to
Nigeria
Region
Ogoja, Cross River State
Ethnicity
Mbube people
Native speakers
65,000 (2011)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic-Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue-Congo
Bantoid
Southern Bantoid
Ekoid–Mbe
Mbe
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mfo
Glottolog
mbee1249
People
Mbube[2]
Language
M̀bè
Mbe is a language spoken by the Mbube people of the Ogoja, Cross River State region of Nigeria, numbering about 65,000 people in 2011.[1] As the closest relative of the Ekoid family of the Southern Bantoid languages,[3] Mbe is fairly close to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun-class system.
^ abMbe at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ekoid–Mbe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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