Kele is a

Bantu language The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...

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. Dialects of the Kele language are scattered throughout Gabon. *West Kele (Kili) is spoken by the Kele people, scattered in Middle Ogooué Province,

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area. *Ngom (Angom, Ungomo) is used with only minor differences by the Kola/Koya Pygmies. It is spoken on both sides of the border with the

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. *Bubi (not the same as the

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) *Tombidi *Mwesa

Phonology

Kele also has two tones; high and low.

References

Kele languages Languages of Gabon {{Gabon-stub