Budza or Buja (Embudja, Limbudza) is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The t ...

of the

Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. There are several neighbouring minor languages which Maho (2009) lists as closely related: C371 Tembo (''Motembo'' or ''Litembo'' – distinguish Kitembo), C372 Kunda (''Likunda'' – distinguish

Chikunda Chikunda, sometimes rendered as Achicunda, was the name given from the 18th century onwards to the slave-warriors of the Afro-Portuguese estates known as Prazos in Zambezia, Mozambique. They were used to defend the prazos and police their inhabitan ...

), C373 Gbuta (''Egbuta'') and C374 Babale. Only Litembo, with 5,000 speakers, has been assigned an ISO code; ''Glottolog'' treats it and Likunda as a single language.

References

Buja-Ngombe languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-stub