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
- ↑ 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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