Teke–Mbere is a proposed intermediate group of
Bantu languages
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 ...
, coded Zone B.50–80 in Guthrie's classification, along with the erstwhile Mbundu language Songo. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they are:
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Nzebi (B.50)
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Mbete (B.60)
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Teke (B.70–80)
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Songo'' (H.20)
''Ethnologue'' suggests that the unclassified
Songo "dialect" of Yansi (B.80) may be the same as the Songo here.
Footnotes
References
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