Budza language

Budza
Buja
Native to	DR Congo
Native speakers	(230,000 cited 1985 census)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C.40) Buja–Ngombe Budza
Dialects	Budza Tembo Kunda Gbuta Babale
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: bja – Budza tmv – Tembo
Glottolog	temb1272  (Motembo-Kunda-Buja)[2] egbu1235  (Gbuta)[3]
Guthrie code	C.37[4]

Budza or Buja (Embudja, Limbudza) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are several neighboring minor languages which Maho (2009) lists as closely related: C371 Tembo (Motembo – distinguish Kitembo), C372 Kunda, C373 Gbuta (Egbuta), and C374 Babale. Only Tembo, with 5,000 speakers, has been assigned an ISO code.

References

1. Budza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Tembo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Motembo-Kunda-Buja". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gbuta". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online