Bua | |
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Geographic distribution | southern Chad |
Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
Language codes | |
Glottolog | adam1257 |
The Bua languages are a subgroup of the Mbum–Day subgroup of the Savanna languages spoken by fewer than 30,000 people in southern Chad in an area stretching roughly between the Chari River and the Guéra Massif. They were labeled "G13" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal. They are ultimately part of the Niger–Congo family, and have exerted a significant influence on Laal.
Bua languages have had extensive contact with Chadic languages.[1]