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Tembo language (Motembo)

Budza
Buja
Native to	DR Congo
Native speakers	(230,000 cited 1985 census)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C.40) Buja–Ngombe Budza
Dialects	Budza Tembo Kunda Gbuta Babale
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: – Budza – Tembo
Glottolog	`budj1234` Budza-Egbuta `temb1272` Motembo `kund1256` Kunda
Guthrie code	`C.37`

Budza or Buja (Embudja, Limbudza) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There are several neighbouring minor languages which Maho (2009) lists as closely related: C371 Tembo (Motembo – distinguish Kitembo), C372 Kunda, C373 Gbuta (Egbuta) and C374 Babale. Only Tembo, with 5,000 speakers, has been assigned an ISO code.

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