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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 form a valid node with Tende (part of B.80): : Tsege : Teghe (Tɛgɛ, North Teke) : Ngungwel (Ngungulu, NE Teke) – Central Teke (Njyunjyu/Ndzindziu, Boo/Boma/Eboo) : Tio (Bali) – East Teke (Mosieno, Ng'ee/Ŋee) : Kukwa (Kukuya, South Teke) : Fuumu (South Teke) – Wuumu (Wumbu) : Tiene (B.80) : Mfinu (B.80) : Mpuono (B.80) Pacchiarotti et al. (2019) retain West Teke and include additional B.80 languages:Sara Pacchiarotti, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri & Koen Bostoen (2019) 'Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess: identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50–80 languages.' ''Africana Linguistica'' 21: 87–162. ;Teke (Kasai–Ngounie) * Boma Nkuu * Wuumu-Mpuono * Mfinu *Kwa South: East Teke *Kwa–Kasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teke People
The Teke people or Bateke, also known as the Tyo or Tio, are a Bantu Central African ethnic group that speak the Teke languages and that mainly inhabit the south, north, and center of the Republic of the Congo, the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a minority in the south-east of Gabon. Omar Bongo, who was President of Gabon in the late 20th century, was a Teke. History As part of the Bantu expansion, the Teke established a powerful kingdom in what is now the Republic of Congo in the first millennium C.E. with religion as the basis of legitimacy. The Teke Kingdom flourished around the 12th and 13th centuries, but by the 15th had become a vassal of the Kingdom of Kongo and faced encroachment on their frontiers by numerous other peoples. Initially occupying the area between Manyanga and the Malebo Pool, the Teke were gradually pushed north by Kongolese raids and emigration, itself a product of the violence of the Atlantic slave trade, into the Batéké Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
