Kobo is a Bantu language spoken by about 50,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In particular, it is spoken in the territories of Masisi, Walikale and Lubero in the south of North Kivu Province in the northeast of the DRC.
Speakers of Kobo call their language Kɨkobo and themselves Bakobo. Kobo is written with the Latin alphabet.
Download an alphabet chart for Kobo (Excel)
Details of the Kobo alphabet (PDFs) provided by Wolfram Siegel
Habyaga mʉthasha mʉgʉma abyawithe bʉbʉya bʉlengitsye, abandʉ boshi babyaga ni bamutsigire kʉtsɨbʉ. Abasole boshi b’omomuyi oyo babyaga ni bamufwirireko, obʉlɨ mʉndʉ abyanzire imʉthahya bʉshana n’obʉbʉya bʉwe.
Source: https://www.kikobo.net/fr/esongano-sek%C9%A8kobo-les-contes-en-kikobo
Information about Kobo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_language
https://www.kikobo.net/
https://iturionline.net/nord-kivu-culture-a-la-decouverte-de-la-langue-kikobo-avec-madame-saruti-adelphine/
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