Yela-Kela language
Language
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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] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:kel – Kelayel – Yela |
Glottolog | yela1238 |
C.74, 75 [2] |
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 spoken dialect is "Kela", and Équateur Province, where the spoken dialect is "Yela".[3]
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