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and

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. It had been spoken in villages of Rio Campo and Northern Bata, along the coast, but its native speakers have begun abandoning the language for

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, and Kombe. Can be related to Kako spoken in the East region of

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and some parts of the west of

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Phonology

Consonants

* /z, d͡ʒ/ only rarely occur phonemically. * /ɡ/ may be lenited as �in intervocalic positions. * /ᵑɡ/ can be heard as a nasal �when in word-final position, or when followed by /l/.

Vowels

References

Kele languages Languages of Equatorial Guinea Languages of Gabon {{Bantu-lang-stub