budu, language, language, spoken, china, china, language, mali, budu, dogon, budu, Ɨbʉdhʉ, bantu, language, spoken, budu, people, wamba, territory, orientale, province, democratic, republic, congo, orthography, uses, special, characters, well, modifier, letter. For the language spoken in China see Budu language China For the language of Mali see Budu Dogon Budu Ɨbʉdhʉ 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 BuduƗbʉdhʉNative toDemocratic Republic of the CongoRegionOrientale ProvinceEthnicityBuduNative speakers 180 000 cited 1991 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoBenue CongoSouthern BantoidBantu Zone D 30 Nyali Budu Ndaka BuduLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code buu class extiw title iso639 3 buu buu a Glottologbudu1250Guthrie codeD 332 2 A variety of this language is called Matta and is spoken locally both north and south of Maboma Contents 1 Phonology 1 1 Consonants 1 2 Vowels 2 NotesPhonology editConsonants edit Labial Alveolar Alveolo palatal Velar Labio velar Glottal Plosive voiceless p t c k voiced b d ɟ ɡ prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᶮɟ ᵑɡ implosive ɓ ɗ ʄ Affricate voiceless t ɕ k p voiced d ʑ ɡ b prenasal ᶮd ʑ ᵑᵐɡ b Fricative voiceless f s h voiced v z prenasal ᶬv Nasal m n ɲ Approximant l j w z only occurs in the Koya dialect of Budu h can be heard as either a voiced ɦ or voiceless h among different speakers 3 ɗ can be heard as l or a tap ɾ in free variation 4 Vowels edit Front Central Back Close i u Near close ɪ ʊ Close mid e o Open mid ɛ ɔ Open aNotes edit Budu at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required Jouni Filip Maho 2009 New Updated Guthrie List Online Koehler Loren S 1995 An Underspecification Approach To Budu Vowel Harmony Ann Arbor UMI Lojenga Constance K 1994 Kibudu A Bantu Language with nine Vowels Africana Linguistica XI Tervuren pp 127 133 nbsp This Bantu language related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Budu language amp oldid 1211557497, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
