Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
Suku |
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Kisuku |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Ethnicity | Suku people |
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Native speakers | (50,000 cited 1980)[1] |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | sub |
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Glottolog | suku1259 |
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Suku is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003)[3] accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu.
References
- ^ Suku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.
Official language | |
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National languages | - Kongo
- Lingala
- Swahili (Congo Swahili)
- Tshiluba
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Indigenous languages (by province) | |
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Sign languages | |
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Zone E | [J]E10 | |
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[J]E20 | |
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[J]E30 | |
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[J]E40 | |
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E50 | |
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E60 | |
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E70 | |
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Zone F | |
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Zone G | |
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Zone H | |
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- Italics indicate extinct languages.
- Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.
- The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them.
- Narrow Bantu languages by Guthrie classification zone templates
- Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B)
- Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones C–D)
- Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H)
- Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)
- Template:Narrow Bantu languages (Zones N–S)
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Authority control databases: National | |
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