found: Work cat.: Asodati, D.B. Aspects of Bwatiye cultural history, 2007:pref. (Bwatiye people (formerly known as: Bachama and Bata))
found: Asodati, D.B. Bwaaraune, 2007:t.p. (Bwaatiye) p. xiv-xv (Bwaatiye; refers to the ethnic group of those earlier referred to as Bachama and Batta) p. 5 (while the Bwaatiye to the west came to be known as the Bachama, those to the east came to be known as the Batta; Sept. 6, 1979 the government of the defunct Gongola State formally approved the request by the Bachama and the Batta to be re-designated as the Bwaatiye ethnic group; today, the Bwaatiye spread from north of Goroua in Cameroon to Bang in Nigeria)
found: Ethnologue, 2005(Bata; a language of Nigeria; also spoken in Cameroon; they have joined with the Bacama in the Bwatiye Association)
found: Dalby, D. Linguasphere, 1999(Bwatiye, Gbwata + Bacama)
found: Okafor, B. A Celebration of Life in Bwatiye Land, 2006(Bwatiye; one of Nigeria's 250 ethnic nationalities; are the Bachama and Bata-speaking groups that live on the fringes of the Benue and Gongola River confluence, in the country's north-eastern state of Adamawa, even further down to parts of northern Cameroon)
found: Onlinenigeria.com/tribes WWW site, June 5, 2009(Bwatiye; Adamawa)
notfound: Biebuyck, D. African ethnonyms, c1996