Budza language

Budza
Buja
Native to DR Congo
Native speakers
(230,000 cited 1985 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Budza
  • Tembo
  • Kunda
  • Gbuta
  • Babale
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
bja – Budza
tmv – Tembo
Glottolog budj1234  (Budza-Egbuta)[2]
temb1272  (Motembo)[3]
kund1256  (Kunda)[4]
C.37[5]

Budza or Buja (Embudja, Limbudza) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are several neighboring minor languages which Maho (2009) lists as closely related: C371 Tembo (Motembo – distinguish Kitembo), C372 Kunda, C373 Gbuta (Egbuta), and C374 Babale. Only Tembo, with 5,000 speakers, has been assigned an ISO code.

References

  1. ↑ Budza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tembo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Budza-Egbuta". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Motembo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kunda". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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