Budu (Bantu language)

Budu
Spoken in	Democratic Republic of Congo
speaker	180,000 (1991)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantu languages Budu ;
Official status
Official language in	-
Language codes
ISO 639-3	buu

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 .

[1] 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 .