Gwa language

Not to be confused with Peve language or Gwa language (Ghana).
Gwa
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State
Native speakers
980 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gwb
Glottolog gwaa1239[2]
Linguasphere 99-AAB-b

Gwa is one of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of Nigeria. It is closely related to Lame.

References

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


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/4/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.