Native speakers (21,000 cited 1971) ISO 639-3 lwa | Dialects Mbagani
Lwalwa | |
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo Region Kasai-Occidental province Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu
Luban?
(?)
Lwalu | ||
Lwalu, also known as Lwalwa, is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its classification is uncertain: Nurse (2003), following Ahmed (1995), assigns all of Guthrie's L.20 languages to Luban, including Lwalu.
Maho (2009) lists L.22 Mbagani (which has no ISO code) as closely related. Mbagani is also called Binji, and has been confused in the literature with the Binji language. Ethnologue labels the area Maho assigns to Mbagani as Songe.
References
Lwalu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA