Buyu language

Buyu
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region South Kivu–Katanga
Native speakers
 10,000 (2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 byi
Glottolog buyu1239[2]
D.55[3]

Buyu, or Buyi, is a Bantu language of Lake Tanganyika that is closely related to Nyanga.

Former ISO coding problems

A "Bemba" language of South Kivu was listed in Ethnologue 17 as ISO code [bmy].[4] 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][5] 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.

See also


References

  1. ↑ Buyu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Buyu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ Bemba at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  5. ↑ Songa at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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