Teke-Tsaayi
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo , Gabon | |
| speaker | 129,500 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Teke-Tsaayi (also Getsaayi, Tsaya, Tsaye and Tsayi) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 129,500 people in the Republic of the Congo and Gabon .
It is widespread in the Republic of the Congo in the north of the Lékoumou department east of Mossendjo with around 95,900 speakers and in Gabon with around 33,600 speakers.
classification
Teke-Tsaayi and the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tyee and Yaka form the Teke group. According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Tsaayi belongs to the Guthrie zone B70.
76% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Teke-Tyee and 80% with that of Teke-Kukuya.