The Bangi–Tetela languages are a proposed intermediate clade of
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 ...
s that comprise a large part of Guthrie's
Zone C (Motingea 1996):
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Bangi–Ntomba (
Lingala
Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: ) is a Bantu languages, Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser de ...
,
Mongo, etc.: mostly C.30)
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Soko–Kele (C50–60)
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Tetela (C70)
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Bushoong (C80)
Footnotes
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