Budu language

Budu
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region Orientale Province
Ethnicity Budu
Native speakers
 (180,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 buu
Glottolog budu1250[2]
D.332[3]

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 colon ꞉ and short equal sign ꞊ for tones.

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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Budu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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