Teke-Tege
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo , Gabon | |
| speaker | 65,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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Teke-Tege (also Iteghe, Katege, Ketego, Tege, Nord-Teke, Tege, Teghe, Teke Alima and Teke Kali) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 65,000 people in the Republic of the Congo and Gabon .
It is widespread in the Republic of the Congo in the Cuvette department in the Ewo and Okoyo districts and in the Plateaux department in the Abala district with 49,300 speakers and in Gabon in the Haut-Ogooué province east of Franceville west of the Mpama river with 15,700 speakers.
Teke-Tege is written in the Latin script , around 60% of the second language speakers can read and write it.
classification
Teke-Tege together with the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Tsaayi , Teke-Tyee and Yaka form the Teke group. According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Tege belongs to the Guthrie zone B70.
81% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Ombamba , 79% with that of Teke-Kukuya, 77% with that of Ngungwel, 76% with that of Teke-Eboo, 75% with that of Teke-Tyee, 74% with that of Mbere and 73% with that of Teke-Laali and Teke-Tsaayi.
Teke-Tege has the dialects Kateghe (also Nzikini) and Keteghe.