Budu (Bantu language)
Budu | ||
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Spoken in |
Democratic Republic of Congo | |
speaker | 180,000 (1991) | |
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Official language in | - | |
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ISO 639-3 |
Budu is a Bantu language spoken by the Budu people in the Wamba Territory in the Haut-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Their spelling uses the special letters ɨ , ʉ , ɛ and ɔ , as well as a special form of the colon ( Unicode : U + A789 ꞉ modifier letter colon in the Latin block , extended-D ) and a double bar resembling a shortened equal sign (U + A78A ꞊ modifier letter short equals sign in the same block) as a tone sign .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter G. Constable, Lorna A. Priest: Proposal to Encode Additional Orthographic and Modifier Characters (Unicode Document L2 / 06-259r, ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2 Document N3216). (PDF) Unicode Technical Committee, October 20, 2006, accessed February 12, 2017 .