Concept information
Preferred term
Mbuun
Definition
- Mbuun or Mpuun, is a Bantu language spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The name is sometimes spelled Kimbuun or Gimbunda. Mpuono has been spuriously conflated with it in some sources. Mbuun is part of the Kikongo Language Cluster, which is classified within the Volta-Congo branch. Like other Bantu languages, Mbuun has a noun class system, a characteristic feature of languages belonging to the Atlantic–Congo lineage, the largest demonstrated language family in Africa.
Identifier
- ZMP
Notation
- zmp
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ZMP
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