Sua language

Not to be confused with Bila language.

Sua
Mansoanka
Native to	Guinea-Bissau
Native speakers	21,000 (2022)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Sua
Dialects	Nrenghanan Nsinghnan Buntchan Mneliman
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	msw
Glottolog	mans1259
ELP	Mansoanka

Sua, also known by other ethnic groups as Mansoanka or Kunante,^[2] is a divergent Niger–Congo language spoken in the Mansôa area of Guinea-Bissau.^[3]

References

1. Sua at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
2. Wilson, William André Auquier. 2007. Guinea Languages of the Atlantic group: description and internal classification. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik, 12.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
3. Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. Vol. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.

• Guillaume Segerer & Florian Lionnet 2010. "'Isolates' in 'Atlantic'". Language Isolates in Africa workshop, Lyon, Dec. 4