Budu language
Language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ɨbʉdhʉ, also called 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 | |
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Ɨbʉdhʉ | |
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 |
D.332 [2] |
A variety of this language is called Matta and is spoken locally both north and south of Maboma.
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