Tetela language
| Tetela | |
|---|---|
| Ɔtɛtɛla | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Region | Northern Kasai Oriental Province |
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Native speakers
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(760,000 cited 1991) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: tll – Tetela hba – Hamba |
| Glottolog | tete1253 |
C.71 |
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Tetela (Otetela, Kitetela, Kikitatela), also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Tetela people.
[Ethnologue]] moved the Hamba dialect to a different branch of Bantu. However, Maho (2009) retains it in Tetela.
Like other Bantu languages, Tetela grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes (counting singular and plural as distinct according to the Meinhof system), with most Bantu languages sharing at least ten of them.
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