Teke-Laali
| Teke-Laali | ||
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 2100 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Teke-Laali (also Ilaali) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 2100 people in the Republic of the Congo . It is widespread in the Lékoumou department south of Komono .
classification
Teke-Laali forms the Teke group with the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tsaayi , Teke-Tyee and Yaka . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Laali belongs to the Guthrie zone B70.
81% of the vocabulary has similarities with the Teke-Tsaayi vocabulary and 78% with that of Teke-Tyee.