Buyu, or Buyi, is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...

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that is closely related to Nyanga.

Former ISO coding problems

A "Bemba" language of

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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

Bemba language Bemba (natively known as ''Chibemba, Ichibemba'' and ''Chiwemba''), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people. History Bemba is spoken in rural and urban areas of the region, and is one of Zambia's sev ...

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