The Bwa languages (Bwamu, Bomu) are a branch of the
Gur languages spoken by over half a million
Bwa people of
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
and
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
.
The Bwa people, and their languages, are one of several called
Bobo
Bobo may refer to:
Animals and plants
* Bobo (gorilla) a popular gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle from 1953 to 1968
* Bobo, Vietnamese name for Job's tears, a plant of south-east Asia
Entertainment, arts and media
* ''Bobo'' (maga ...
in
Bambara. The Bwa are distinguished as the ''Bobo Wule/Oule'' "Red Bobo". The Bwa languages are not
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
; ''Ethnologue'' calculates that the intelligibility of the Ouarkoye and Cwi is 30%, though other varieties are closer.
Languages
*
Bwamu (Ouarkoye)
*
Láá Láá Bwamu
*
Cwi Bwamu (Bwamu Twi)
*
Bomu
References
Gur languages
Languages of Burkina Faso
Languages of Mali
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