Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Esimbowe
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Southern Bantoid
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mxo
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,690
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1969 census.

					2012	"A preliminary documentation of Siluyana: comparing Mbowe and Mwenyi" HRELP Abstract														http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=262	Kula, Nancy	Kula, Nancy. 2012. ""A Preliminary Documentation of Siluyana: Comparing Mbowe and Mwenyi" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=262.						2,690		1000-9999													Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)								Western Province, Zambia		-14.154511, 22.017453
			16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)				M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX					http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub					2,690		1000-9999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from the 1969 census.												Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Mbowe