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).
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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Orientale Province |
Ethnicity | Budu |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1991)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | buu |
Glottolog | budu1250 [2] |
D.332 [3] |
A variety of this language is called Matta and is spoken locally both north and south of Maboma.
Notes
- Budu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Budu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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