{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in DRC}} {{Infobox language |name=Lwalu |altname=Khongo |nativename=Lwalwa |states=[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Angola]] |region=[[Kasai-Occidental]] province |speakers=21,000 |date=1971 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] |fam6=[[Luban languages|Luban]]? |fam7=(?) |dia1=Mbagani |dia2=Lwalwa |iso3=lwa |glotto=lwal1238 |glottorefname=Lwalu |guthrie=L.221 }}
'''Lwalu''', also known as '''Lwalwa''' and '''Khongo''', is a [[Bantu language]] of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] and [[Angola]]. Its classification is uncertain: Nurse (2003), following Ahmed (1995), assigns all of Guthrie's L.20 languages to [[Luban languages|Luban]], including Lwalu.
Maho (2009) lists L.22 Mbagani (which has no ISO code) as closely related. Mbagani is also called Binji, and has been confused in the literature with the [[Binji language]]. ''[[Ethnologue]]'' labels the area Maho assigns to Mbagani as [[Songe language|Songe]].
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{{Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}} [[Category:Bantu languages]] [[Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]