Buamu language

Not to be confused with Bwa language.
Bwa
Eastern Bobo Wule
Buamu
Region Burkina Faso
Ethnicity Bwa
Native speakers
190,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Ouarkoye Bwamu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 box
Glottolog buam1238[2]
Person Bwa
People Bwaba
Language Bwamu

The principal Bwa language, Eastern Bobo Wule (Buamu, Bwamu), is a Gur language of Burkina Faso. It is one of several closely related languages with the name.

References

  1. Bwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Buamu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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