Teke–Mbere is a proposed intermediate group of
Bantu languages
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 ...
, 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
Teke or Tekke can refer to:
People
* Teke (tribe), a tribe of southern Turkmenistan
* Teke people or Bateke, a Central African ethnic group
* Fatih Tekke (born 1977), Turkish footballer
* Kent Tekulve (born 1947), American baseball player
Places ...
(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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