Lele language (Bantu)
Not to be confused with Lele language (Papua New Guinea), Lele language (Chad), or Lele language (Guinea).
| Lele | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Native speakers | (26,000 cited 1971)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lel |
| Glottolog |
lele1265[2] |
C.84[3] | |
Lele (also spelled Bashilele, Usilele) is a language spoken mainly in the west edge of the Kasai-Occidental Province, in Ilebo and Tshikapa territories; the extreme east of the Bandundu Province, in Idiofa and Gungu territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
- ↑ Lele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Lele (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
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