Lwalu language explained

Lwalu
Nativename:Lwalwa
States:Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region:Kasai-Occidental province
Speakers:21,000
Date:1971
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu
Fam6:Luban?
Fam7:(?)
Dia1:Mbagani
Dia2:Lwalwa
Iso3:lwa
Glotto:lwal1238
Glottorefname:Lwalu
Guthrie:L.221

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.