Budu (Ɨbʉdhʉ) is a
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantÊŠÌ€) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
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,
É› and
É”, 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.
Phonology
Consonants
*
only occurs in the Koya dialect of Budu.
* /h/ can be heard as either a voiced
�or voiceless
among different speakers.
* /É—/ can be heard as
or a tap
�in free variation.
*
Vowels
Notes
Nyali languages
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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