The Kele or Sheke languages are a clade of
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
The t ...
s coded Zone B.20 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart possibly from
Seki (Sheke) (B.21) itself, the languages form a valid node. They are:
:
Lengue,
Ndasa,
Sigu (Sighu),
Kele (Dikele),
Ngom,
Mbangwe,
Wumbvu,
Kota,
Shake (Sake),
Mahongwe, ?
Seki (Sheke)
Maho (2009) adds B203
Sama, B204
Ndambomo, B205
Metombola.
Footnotes
References
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