Bata (Gbwata) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Numan, Song, Fufore and Jimeta gire Yola maiha Demsa lamorde LGAs, and in Cameroon in North Province along the border with Nigeria.

Dialects are Demsa, Garoua, Jirai, Kobotachi, Malabu, Ndeewe, Ribaw, Wadi, and Zumu (Jimo).

[2] Blench (2019) lists Bwatye (endonym: Ɓwaare; exonym: Bachama) as a closely related language variety.

[4] ALCAM (2012) lists Gbwata (Bwaara in Nigeria) as the singular personal form of Bata.

[5] Bacama is a Gbwata ethnic group settled in Nigeria.