Teke-Tyee
| Teke-Tyee | ||
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 14,400 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Teke-Tyee (also West-Teke) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 14,400 people in the Republic of the Congo .
It is common in the departments of Lékoumou and Bouenza .
classification
Teke-Tyee forms the Teke group with the languages Ngungwel , Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tsaayi and Yaka . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Teke-Tyee belongs to the Guthrie Zone B70.
85% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Teke-Kukuya and Teke-Eboo.