Boma language

Not to be confused with Boma dialect or Nunu dialect.
Boma
Kiboma
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
21,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 boh
Glottolog boma1246  (Boma)[2]
kemp1234  (Kempee)[3]
B.82[4]

Boma is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Maho (2009) considers Boma, B.821 Mpe (Kempee), and B.822 Nunu to be closely related languages. Mpe and Nunu do not have ISO codes. (Distinguish the Nunu dialect of Ngiri.)

References

  1. Boma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Boma". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kempee". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

See also


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