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 Te ...
dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of Variety (linguistics), language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulat ...
of the Congolese plateau. The three dialects, Fuumu (''Ifuumu''), Wuumu (''Iwuumu'') and Mpuono, are sometimes considered separate languages. They are sometimes considered part of
South Teke.
Mpuono has been spuriously conflated with
Mbuun.
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References
{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B)
Teke languages