Teke-Fuumu
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 8150 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Teke-Fuumu (also Kiteke, South-Central Teke, Teke du Pool) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 8,150 people in the Republic of the Congo .
It is common in the Pool region.
classification
Teke-Fuumu forms the Teke group with the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tsaayi , Teke-Tyee and Yaka . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Fuumu belongs to the Guthrie Zone B70.
Teke-Fuumu has the dialects Fuumu (also Ifuumu and Mfumu) and Wuumu (also Iwuumu and Wumbu). Fuumu is spoken north of Brazzaville , Wuumu north and northeast of the Lefini River .