Bwa language

Not to be confused with Bwa languages or Kho-Bwa languages.
Bwa
Benge-Baati
Yewu
Native to DR Congo
Ethnicity Boa
Native speakers
200,000 (1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bww
Glottolog bwaa1238[2]
C.43–44[3]

Bwa (Boa, Boua, Bua, Kibua, Kibwa, Libua, Libwali) is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dialects are

Pagibete is close, and might be considered another dialect.

References

  1. Bwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bwa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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