Bwa | |
Also Known As: | Benge-Baati |
Nativename: | Yewu |
States: | DR Congo |
Ethnicity: | Boa |
Speakers: | 200,000 |
Date: | 1994 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone C.40) |
Fam6: | Boan |
Fam7: | Bomokandian |
Fam8: | Bati–Angba |
Fam9: | Bwa–Pagibete |
Iso3: | bww |
Glotto: | bwaa1238 |
Glottorefname: | Bwa |
Guthrie: | C.43–44 |
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.