| Mbe | |
|---|---|
| M̀bè | |
| Pronunciation | [m̀bè] |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Ogoja, Cross River State |
| Ethnicity | Mbube people |
Native speakers | 65,000 (2011)[1] |
| 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.
- ^ a b Mbe 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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