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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Nigeria > Kwa

Kwa

A language of Nigeria

ISO 639-3kwb

Population  7,000 (1992).
Region  Adamawa state, Numan LGA, Gyakan and Kwa towns, near Munga.
Language map  Nigeria, Map 5, reference number 272
Alternate names   Baa, Kwah
Dialects  Gyakan, Kwa.
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Adamawa, Kwa
Language use  Also use Bacama [bcy].
Comments  Different from Kwa’ [bko] of Cameroon in the Bamileke group. Tradesmen. Traditional religion, Christian.