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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | South Kivu–Katanga |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2002)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | byi |
Glottolog | buyu1239 |
D.55 [2] |
Buyu, or Buyi, is a Bantu languageofLake Tanganyika that is closely related to Nyanga.
A "Bemba" language of South Kivu was listed in Ethnologue 17 as ISO code [bmy].[3] However, the name, Kinyabemba, is the language of the Banyabemba, one of the tribes that speak Buyu. (It is not the Bemba language of Zambia.) "Songa" [sgo][4] is another Buyu-speaking tribe rather than a distinct language. "Buya" [byy] is unidentified, but may be a typo for Buyu. The codes were retired in 2014.
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