Lwalu language

Lwalu
Lwalwa
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
RegionKasai-Occidental province
Native speakers
(21,000 cited 1971)[1]
Dialects
  • Mbagani
  • Lwalwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3lwa
Glottologlwal1238
L.221[2]

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.

  1. ^ Lwalu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online