Kela language

Not to be confused with Kela language (New Guinea).
Kela
Native to DR Congo
Region Kasai
Native speakers
unknown (180,000 cited 1972)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kel
Glottolog kela1254[2]
C.75[3]

Kela (Ikela, Okela), or Lemba, is a Bantu language spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

  1. Kela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kela (Democratic Republic of Congo)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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