Kela-Yela language
Not to be confused with Yela language (Papua New Guinea) or Kela language (New Guinea).
Kela | |
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Yela | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Kasai (Kela), Equateur Province (Yela) |
Native speakers | (180,000 Kela, 33,000 Yela cited 1972 and 1977)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
Either: kel – Kela yel – Yela |
Glottolog |
yela1238 [2] |
C.74, 75 [3] |
Kela (Ikela, Okela), or Lemba, and Yela are a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of Congo spoken by several hundred thousand people in the Kasai-Oriental, where the language is called "Kela", and Equateur Province, where it's called "Yela".[4]
References
- ↑ Kela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Yela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yela". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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