Kela (Ikela, Okela), or ''Lemba'', and Yela are a
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu language, Proto-Bantu: *bantÊŠÌ€), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern, East Africa, Eastern and Southeast Africa, South ...
of the
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
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
* Ã ...
, 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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