Yela-Kela language

{{Short description|Language}} {{distinguish|Yela language (Papua New Guinea)|Kela language (New Guinea)}} {{Infobox language |name=Kela |altname=Yela |states =[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] |region=[[Kasai-Oriental|Kasai]] (Kela), [[Équateur (former province)|Equateur Province]] (Yela) |speakers=180,000 Kela, 33,000 Yela |date=1972 and 1977 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] ([[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages#Zone C|Zone C]]) |fam6=[[Bangi–Ntomba languages|Bangi–Ntomba]] (C.30,<br>traditionally C.70 [[Tetela languages|Tetela]]) |fam7=Mongo |lc1=kel|ld1=Kela |lc2=yel|ld2=Yela |glotto=yela1238 |glottorefname=Yela-Kela |guthrie=C.74, 75 }}

'''Kela''' (Ikela, Okela), or ''Lemba'', and '''Yela''' are a [[Bantu language]] of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] spoken by several hundred thousand people in the [[Kasai-Oriental]], where the spoken dialect is "Kela", and [[Équateur (former province)|Équateur Province]], where the spoken dialect is "Yela".<ref>Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices</ref>

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{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones C–D)}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Bangi-Ntomba languages]]