Kele language (Congo)
See also: Kele language (disambiguation)
Kele | |
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Lokele | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Kisangani |
Ethnicity | Kele people |
Native speakers | (160,000 cited 1980)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
khy – inclusive codeIndividual code: fom – Foma |
Glottolog |
kele1255 [2] |
C.55, 56 [3] |
The Kele language, or Lokele, is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Kele people.
Foma (Lifoma) is a dialect.[4]
References
- ↑ Kele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Foma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kele (Democratic Republic of Congo)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
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