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The Tetela 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 C.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), together with C.81 Dengese and C.89, the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are: : TetelaHamba, Kusu, Nkutu, Yela, Ombo, (C80)
Dengese The Dengese, also known as the Ndengese, are an ethnic group from Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak Bondengese and Lingala Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: ''Lingála'') is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Rep ...
, Shuwa (Pianga) However, Yela is the same language as
Kela Kela or KELA may refer to: * KelA, a sports club in Kellokoski, Finland * KELA (AM), a radio station (1470 AM) licensed to Centralia-Chehalis, Washington, United States * Kela (Finnish institution), the Finnish social security agency * Kela (trib ...
, which is classified differently. Maho (2009) adds Langa to C.70.


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