Region Orientale Province Native speakers (180,000 cited 1991) | Ethnicity Budu ISO 639-3 buu | |
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu (Zone D.30)
Nyali (Budu–Ndaka)
Budu | ||
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.
References
Budu language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA