Mpiemo language

Mpiemo (Bimu) is a Bantu language of the Central African Republic. The Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM, or "Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon") gives the name Mpo.[3]

Mpiemo
Mbimu
Native toCentral African Republic, Cameroon, Congo
EthnicityMbimu
Native speakers
(29,000 in CAR and Cameroon cited 1991–1996)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3mcx
Glottologmpie1238
A.86c[2]

There is little description of the language, but one team used Mpiemo data to test the ability of compute programs to analyze real language data.[4]

References
  1. Mpiemo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
  4. Hammarström, Harald, Christina Thornell, Malin Petzell, and Torbjörn Westerlund. "Bootstrapping language description: The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)." In Sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, 28-30 May 2008, Marrakech. 2008.downloadable


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