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Mbula Bwazza language

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Native to
  
Nigeria

Native speakers
  
100,000 (2012)

Region
  
Adamawa State

ISO 639-3
  
mbu

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu? (Zone A) Mbam Jarawan Nigerian Jarawan Numan Mbula-Bwazza

Dialects
  
Bwazza Mbula Tambo Kula Gwamba

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

  • Bwazza
  • Mbula: Mbula, Tambo, Kula, Gwamba.

    • Bwazza Given Names:

  • "Zori" a male given name which translated as Pillar of a Family, and it therefore means "The embodiment of the foundation and principles that hold a family together".
  • Tureshi
  • Ifrem

    • References

    Mbula-Bwazza language Wikipedia
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