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Name: Bembe
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Ibembe; Beembe; Ebembe; Kibembe
Spoken in: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Guinea
Number of speakers: 252,000 in Democratic Republic of the Congo (1991 UBS) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 4000 (UNESCO)
Code: bmb
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Bembe (D.50) (bemb)

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UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

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