Kela-Yela language
| Kela | |
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| Yela | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Region | Kasai (Kela), Equateur Province (Yela) |
Native speakers | (180,000 Kela, 33,000 Yela cited 1972 and 1977)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: kel – Kela yel – Yela |
| Glottolog |
yela1238[2] |
C.74, 75[3] | |
Kela (Ikela, Okela), or Lemba, and Yela are a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Kasai-Oriental, where the language is called "Kela", and Equateur Province, where it's called "Yela".[4]
References
- ↑ Kela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yela". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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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