Kela (Ikela, Okela), or ''Lemba'', and Yela are a
Bantu language of the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
spoken by several hundred thousand people in the
Kasai-Oriental, where the spoken dialect is "Kela", and
Équateur Province Équateur, French for equator, may refer to:
Places
* Province of Équateur, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2015
* Équateur (former province), a former province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1966–2015
* Équ ...
, where the spoken dialect is "Yela".
[Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices]
References
Bangi-Ntomba languages
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