Buyu language

Buyu
Native to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region South KivuKatanga
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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Buyu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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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