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1 Phonology  



1.1  Consonants  





1.2  Vowels  







2 Notes  














Budu language






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Budu
Ɨbʉdhʉ
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
RegionOrientale Province
EthnicityBudu

Native speakers

(180,000 cited 1991)[1]

Language family

Niger–Congo?

Language codes
ISO 639-3buu
Glottologbudu1250

Guthrie code

D.332[2]

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.

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

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Alveolar (Alveolo-)
palatal
Velar Labio-
velar
Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t c k
voiced b d ɟ ɡ
prenasal ᵐb d ᶮɟ ᵑɡ
implosive ɓ ɗ ʄ
Affricate voiceless t͡ɕ k͡p
voiced d͡ʑ ɡ͡b
prenasal ᶮd͡ʑ ᵑᵐɡ͡b
Fricative voiceless f s h
voiced v z
prenasal ᶬv
Nasal m n ɲ
Approximant (l) j w

Vowels

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Front Central Back
Close i u
Near-close ɪ ʊ
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

Notes

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  1. ^ BuduatEthnologue (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.

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