Bomu language

{{Short description|Gur language spoken in Mali and Burkina Faso}}

{{distinguish|Bo language (disambiguation){{!}}Bo language|Boo (disambiguation){{!}}Boo language}}

{{about|the West African language|the variety of Dogon sometimes known as "Bobo Tegu"|Escarpment Dogon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Bo

|altname=Western Bobo Wule

|nativename=Bomu

|region=Burkina Faso, Mali

|ethnicity=Bwa

|speakers={{sigfig|317,000|2}} in Mali

|date=2022

|ref=e26

|dia1=Mao

|dia2=Dwemu

|dia3=Dahanmu

|speakers2={{sigfig|56,000|1}} in Burkina Faso (1991)

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Gur

|fam4=Northern Gur

|fam5=Bwa

|iso3=bmq

|glotto=bomu1247

|glottorefname=Bomu

}}

{{infobox ethnonym|Bo|Bwa|Bomu}}

The Bo language of West Africa, Bomu (Boomu), also identified as Western Bobo Wule, is a Gur language of Burkina Faso and Mali.

Bomu is spoken by two groups of Bwa people, the Red Bobo, Bobo Wule (also spelled Bobo Oule), and the White Bobo, Bobo Gbe, also known as Kyan (also spelled Kian, Tian, Tyan, Can, Chan) or Tyanse.