Alternate Names: “Bouze” (pej.), “Busy” (pej.), “Buzi” (pej.), Loghoma, Looma, Lorma, Toa
Dialects: Briama (Bulima, Buluiema, Buluyiema, Bulyama), Gbunde (Bonde, Bunde), Gizima, Wubomai (Wubomei), Ziema (Siama). Distinct from Toma , of Guinea and Loma , of Côte d’Ivoire. Northern and southern dialects are different enough to make mutual intelligibility difficult.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 195,000 (2012 V. Vydrin).
Language Use: Used as L2 by Kuwaa [blh].
Language Development: Literature and literacy program in progress. Grammar. NT: 1971.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Liberia
Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.