Budu language

Budu is a Bantu language spoken by the Budu people in the Wamba Territory in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its orthography uses the special characters ɨ, ʉ, ɛ and ɔ, as well as modifier letters colon and equal sign ꞊ for grammatical tone, marking past and future tense, respectively.

Budu
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
RegionOrientale Province
EthnicityBudu
Native speakers
(180,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3buu
Glottologbudu1250[2]
D.332[3]

A variety of this language is called Matta and is spoken locally both north and south of Maboma.

Notes

  1. Budu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Budu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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