Ware language

Ware
Ware
(unattested)
Region	Lake Victoria
Ethnicity	Ware
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Logooli–Kuria (E.40) Ware; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(dyk deprecated in 2008 as spurious)
Linguist List	wre (retired)
Glottolog	ware1252
Guthrie code	JE.407

Ware is an extinct, apparently unattested² Bantu language near Lake Victoria in East Africa.

ISO removal

When an SIL team failed to find any speakers, Ethnologue retired the ISO code.³

References

Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
"Glottolog 5.3 - Ware". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2026-04-08.
"2007-024 | ISO 639-3". iso639-3.sil.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2026-04-08.