Bwile language

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Bwile
Native to Zambia, DRC
Ethnicity Bwile people
Native speakers
unknown (12,000 in Zambia cited 1969 census)[1]
12,000 in Congo (2002)
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bwc
M.401[2]

Bwile is a divergent Bantu language of Zambia and DR Congo. The number of speakers is unknown: Ethnologue reports 12,400 were counted in DR Congo in 2002, and the same number in the Zambian census of 1969.

References

  1. Bwile reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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