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] |
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.
A variety of this language is called Matta and is spoken locally both north and south of Maboma.