Editing Bua language

{{Short description|Language of Chad}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Bua
|altname=Ba
|states=[[Chad]]
|speakers={{sigfig|7710|2}}
|date=1993 census
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Volta-Congo]]
|fam4=[[Savanna languages|Savannas]]
|fam5=[[Mbum–Day languages|Mbum–Day]]
|fam6=[[Bua languages|Bua]]
|dia1=Kawaway
|iso3=bub
|glotto=buaa1245
|glottorefname=Bua
}}

The '''Bua language''' (also called '''Ba'''<ref name="Lionnet"/>) is spoken north of the [[Chari River]] around [[Korbol]] and [[Gabil]] in [[Chad]]. In 1993 it was spoken by some 8,000 people. It is the largest member of the small [[Bua languages|Bua group]] of languages and is mutually comprehensible with [[Fanian language|Fanian]]. Kawãwãy (Korom) may be a dialect or a distinct language.

Bua is a local [[lingua franca]] in [[Korbol]] Canton, due to the historical influence of the Korbol Caliphate since the late 1700s and 1800s. Speakers also live around Gabil (in the [[Guéra Region]]), and in [[Sarh]] and [[N'Djaména]].<ref name="Lionnet"/>

==Korom==
Korom is spoken by about 60 people in 3 or 4 villages in [[Moyen-Chari Region]] and [[Guéra Region]] of Chad. The main community of speakers is called Kawãwãy, who comprise a community of blacksmiths in Tili Nugar (Tilé Nougar), a [[Fania language|Fania]] village. The language has been documented by Florian Lionnet and R. Hoinathy in 2014 and 2017. Lionnet considers Korom to be separate language closely related to Bua.<ref name="Lionnet">Lionnet, Florian. [http://www.princeton.edu/~flionnet/chad.html Chadic languages].</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* P. A. Benton, ''Languages and Peoples of Bornu Vol. I'', Frank Cass & Co:London 1912 (1st ed.)/1968 (2nd ed.)  Gives Barth's unpublished vocabulary of Bua on pp.&nbsp;78–130.
* M. Gaudefroy-Demombynes, ''Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari'', Paris, 1907.  Includes (pp.&nbsp;107–122) a 200-word comparative list of Bua, Niellim, Fanian, and Tunia, with a brief grammar and some phrases collected by Decorse.
* J. Lukas, ''Zentralsudanisches Studien'', Hamburg, Friedrichsen, de Gruyter & Cie, 1937.  Gives the wordlists of Nachtigal, zu Mecklenburg, Barth, and Gaudefroy-Demombynes for Bua (~400 words), Niellim (~200 words), and Koke (~100 words).
* A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan, ''The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa'', Handbook of African Languages, part III, Oxford University Press for International African Institute, 1956.  Summarizes the grammar of Bua and two relatives based on existing fieldwork.

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