Mbosi is a Bantu language spoken by about 110,000 people in the centre of the Republic of the Congo, particularly in the districts of Boundji, Owando, Oyo, Bokouélé, Tongo, Tchikapika and Mossaka in the Cuvette Department, and in the districts of Abala, Allembé, Ogogni and Ollombo in the Plateaux Department.
Mbosi is also known as Mbochi, Mboshe, Mboshi or Embosi. Speakers of Mbosi call their language Embɔ́si. It is rarely written, but a way to write it with the Latin alphabet was developed by the Department of Linguistics and African Languages at Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville.
Download an alphabet chart for Mbosi (Excel)
Details of the Mbosi alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Bana ba tsɛngɛ yʼambɔsi, si ba Kongo, si bhi bʼokili otsɔ otsina, báádi la posa oyea dzue la bana bʼipɛlɛ ma Lima, eeba amisaa odia lɛkasi la pyeli mo lɛkɔɔli.
Source: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/31775
Information about Mbosi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbosi_language
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbosi
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbochi_(langue)
http://www.language-archives.org/language/mdw
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/mdw
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mbos1242
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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