Native speakers (760,000 cited 1991) | Glottolog tete1253 | |
Region Northern Kasai Oriental Province Language family Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoBantoidBantu (Zone C)Tetela (C.70)Tetela–HambaTetela ISO 639-3 Either:tll – Tetelahba – Hamba | ||
Tetela (Otetela, Kitetela, Kikitatela), also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Tetela people.
[Ethnologue]] moved the Hamba dialect to a different branch of Bantu. However, Maho (2009) retains it in Tetela.
Noun classes
Like other Bantu languages, Tetela grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes (counting singular and plural as distinct according to the Meinhof system), with most Bantu languages sharing at least ten of them.
References
Tetela language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA