Mbula-Bwazza language

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

  • Bwazza
  • Mbula: Mbula, Tambo, Kula, Gwamba
Mbula-Bwazza
Ɓwázà
Native toNigeria
RegionAdamawa State
Native speakers
100,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
  • Bwazza
  • Mbula
  • Tambo
  • Kula
  • Gwamba
Language codes
ISO 639-3mbu
Glottologmbul1260[2]
Ɓwaza[3]
PersonƁwà Ɓwàzà
Peopleàɓwàzà
LanguageƁwázà

References
  1. Mbula-Bwazza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbula-Bwazza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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