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
my However, the name, ''Kinyabemba'', is the language of the ''Banyabemba'', one of the tribes that speak Buyu. (It is not the
Bemba language
The Bemba language, ''ChiBemba'' (also ''Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba'' and ''Chiwemba''), is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups.
History
Bem ...
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
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