Bila is a Bantu language spoken by about 40,000 people in the Mambasa Territory in Ituri Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In particular, it is spoken in and around the towns of Mambasa, Lolwa and Komanda.
Bila is also known as Forest Bira, West-Bila or kiBila. Dialects include Kango, Sua, Bombi-Ngbanja, Nyaku and Ibutu. There is a way to write Bila with the Latin alphabet, however there is very little written material in the language.
Download an alphabet chart for Bila (Excel)
Details of Bila alphabet and pronunciation provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Information about Bila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bila_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/bip
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/bip
https://phoible.org/inventories/view/1251
https://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/channumerals/Bila.htm
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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