Yaka (language, Republic of the Congo)
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Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 10,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Yaka (also Iyaka, Kiyaka West-Teke and Yaa) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 10,000 people in the Republic of the Congo . It is widespread in the Lékoumou department around Sibiti .
classification
Yaka 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 Teke-Tyee . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Yaka belongs to the Guthrie zone B70.
91% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Teke-Laali, 74% with that of Teke-Tsaayi and 69% with that of Teke-Tyee.