Embu > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Embu
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Kiembu
Spoken in:
Kenya
Number of speakers:
429,000 (1994 I. Larsen), increasing. 150,000 in Embu, 61,725 in Mbeere (Heine and Möhlig 1980)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ebu
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Kikuyu-Kamba (E.20) (kikk)
Child Dialects:
Mbeere; Mbere; Kimbeere (ebu-mbe)
Embu (ebu-emb)
Map of Embu
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