Mbula-Bwazza language

Mbula-Bwazza
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State
Native speakers	100,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu? (Zone A) Mbam Jarawan Nigerian Jarawan Numan Mbula-Bwazza
Dialects	Bwazza Mbula Tambo Kula Gwamba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mbu
Glottolog	mbul1260[2]

Mbula-Bwazza is one of the Jarawan Bantu languages of Nigeria. It is a dialect cluster; Blench (2011) divides it into several languages, as follows:

• Bwazza
• Mbula: Mbula, Tambo, Kula, Gwamba.

Bwazza Given Names:

• "Zori" a male given name which translated as Pillar of a Family, and it therefore means "The embodiment of the foundation and principles that hold a family together".
• Tureshi
• Ifrem

References

1. Mbula-Bwazza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbula-Bwazza". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.