Mbole language

{{short description|Language}}

{{Infobox language

|name =Mbole

|nativename =Lombole

|states =DR Congo

|region =Tshopo District

|ethnicity =Mbole

|speakers =100,000

|date =1971

|ref =e18

|familycolor =Niger-Congo

|fam2 =Atlantic–Congo

|fam3 =Benue–Congo

|fam4 =Bantoid

|fam5 =Bantu (Zone D)

|fam6 =Mbole–Enya (D.10)

|iso3 =mdq

|glotto =mbol1247

|glottorefname=Mbole

|guthrie =D.11

}}

Mbole is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It is spoken by the Mbole people, with a population of about 100,000 as of 1971 living in the Tshopo District, southwest of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.