Fuumu is a member of the
Teke languages
The Teke languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken by the Teke people in the western Congo and in Gabon. They are coded Zone B.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), the Teke languages apart from West Teke ...
dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
of the Congolese plateau. The two dialects, Fuumu (''Ifuumu'') and Wuumu (''Iwuumu''), are sometimes considered separate languages. They are sometimes considered part of
South Teke.
References
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Teke languages