Teke-Kukuya
| Teke-Kukuya | ||
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 38,800 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Teke-Kukuya (also Chikuya, Kikuwa, Koukouya, Kukwa and South Teke) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 38,800 people in the Republic of the Congo .
It is widespread in the Plateaux department in the Lekana district east of the Lékéti river .
classification
Teke-Kukuya forms the Teke group with the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tsaayi , Teke-Tyee and Yaka . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Kukuya belongs to the Guthrie zone B70.
86% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Teke-Eboo, 85% with that of Teke-Tyee, 81% with that of Ngungwel, 80% with that of Teke-Tsaayi, 79% with that of Teke-Tege, 75 % with that of Teke-Laali and 70% with that of Yaka.