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.

For the Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China, see Budu language (Sino-Tibetan).

Budu
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Orientale Province
Ethnicity	Budu
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone D.30) Nyali (Budu–Ndaka) Budu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	buu
Glottolog	budu1250[2]
Guthrie code	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