Teke | |
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Ethnicity | Teke people |
Geographic distribution | Central reaches of the Congo River and adjacent areas |
Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
ISO 639-3 | tek |
Glottolog | kasa1251 |
The Teke languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people in the western Congo and in Gabon. They are coded Zone B.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the Teke languages apart from West Teke form a valid node with Tende (part of B.80):[1]
Pacchiarotti et al. (2019) retain West Teke and include additional B.80 languages:[2]
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