Buya language (Democratic Republic of Congo)
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Buyu, or Buyi, is a Bantu language of Lake Tanganyika that is closely related to
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Former ISO coding problems

A "Bemba" language of South Kivu was listed in ''Ethnologue'' 17 as ISO code my However, the name, ''Kinyabemba'', is the language of the ''Banyabemba'', one of the tribes that speak Buyu. (It is not the
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of Zambia.) "Songa" goref> is another Buyu-speaking tribe rather than a distinct language. "Buya" yyis unidentified, but may be a typo for Buyu. The codes were retired in 2014.


References

Nyanga-Buyi languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Spurious languages {{Bantu-lang-stub