Mbe is a language spoken by the Mbube people of the Ogoja Cross River State region of Nigeria numbering about 14300 people in 1973. As the closest relative of the Ekoid family of the Southern Bantoid languages Mbe is fairly close to the Bantu languages. It is tonal and has a typical Niger–Congo noun-class system.
ISO 639-3 code
mfo
family
Benue–Congo languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Ekoid languages, Southern Bantoid languages
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