Mbula-Bwazza language

Ɓwaza^[2]
Ɓwaza
Person	Ɓwà Ɓwàzà
People	àɓwàzà
Language	Ɓwázà

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

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

Bwazza
Mbula: Mbula, Tambo, Kula, Gwamba

References edit

^ Mbula-Bwazza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e18-1] Mbula-Bwazza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[BlenchAtlas4-2] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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