Kwaya language

Kwaya
Native to	Tanzania
Region	Mara Region
Native speakers	120,000 (2005)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Haya–Jita (J.20) Kwaya
Dialects	Kwaya Ruri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kya
Glottolog	kway1241[2]
Guthrie code	JE.251,253[3]

Kwaya is a Bantu language of Tanzania. Jita–Kara–Kwaya are close to being dialects; Maho (2009) separates Ruri from Kwaya as equally distinct.

References

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