Buyu, or Buyi, is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) 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. T ...

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that is closely related to Nyanga.

Former ISO coding problems

A "Bemba" language of

South Kivu South Kivu (''Jimbo la Kivu Kusini'' in Swahili), (french: Sud-Kivu) is one of 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its capital is Bukavu. History South Kivu Province was created from Sud-Kivu District in 1989, when the ex ...

was listed in ''Ethnologue'' 17 as ISO code my However, the name, ''Kinyabemba'', is the language of the ''Banyabemba'', one of the tribes that speak Buyu. (It is not the

Bemba language The Bemba language, ''ChiBemba'' (also ''Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba'' and ''Chiwemba''), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups. History Be ...

of Zambia.) "Songa" goref> is another Buyu-speaking tribe rather than a distinct language. "Buya" yyis unidentified, but may be a typo for Buyu. The codes were retired in 2014.

References

Nyanga-Buyi languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Spurious languages {{Bantu-lang-stub