Bila (language)

Bila
Spoken in	Democratic Republic of Congo
speaker	40,000 (1993)
Linguistic classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantu languages Bila
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gdp

Bila is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a section of the pygmies who live as hunters and gatherers in the Ituri rainforest.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ethnologue
2. ↑ Serge Bahuchet: Languages ​​of African rainforest “pygmy” hunter-gatherers: language shifts without cultural admixture. hal.archives-ouvertes.fr, January 4, 2011, accessed on September 17, 2019 .