Alternate Names: Bwamu, Eastern Bobo Oule, Eastern Bobo Wule, Red Bobo
Dialects: Ouarkoye.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 186,000 (2000).
Language Use: All domains. All ages. Also use French [fra], Jula [dyu].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 2%. Active literacy program. Radio programs. NT: 2012.
Typology: SVO, postpositions, relatives before noun heads, numerals, adjectives after noun heads; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Burkina Faso
Other Comments: Ethnic autonym: Bwa (sg.), Bwaba (pl.) in Dedougou dialect. Ethnonym: Bobo, Bambara name for Buamu, Bomo, or Bobo Fing, but properly applies only to Bobo Fing. Pwe is a town, not a dialect (1973 CMA). Traditional religion, Christian (Protestant).