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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Katanga province |
Ethnicity | Hemba people |
Native speakers | 180,000 (2000)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | hem |
Glottolog | hemb1242 |
L.34, L.202 [2] |
Hemba (Emba), also known as Eastern Luba, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Hemba people. Yazi may be a dialect.
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