Kela (Ikela, Okela), or ''Lemba'', and Yela are a
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantÊŠÌ€) 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.
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of the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
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".
[Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices]
References
Bangi-Ntomba languages
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