Budu language
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Ɨbʉdhʉ, also called Budu, 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
Consonants
| 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 | 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 | ||||
- [z] only occurs in the Koya dialect of Budu.
- /h/ can be heard as either a voiced [ɦ] or voiceless [h] among different speakers.[1]
- /ɗ/ can be heard as [l] or a tap [ɾ] in free variation.[2]
Vowels
| 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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