Tetela languages

{{Short description|Zone C.70 Guthries Clasaificafion}} {{Infobox language family |name=Tetela |ethnicity= |region= |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Benue–Congo]] |fam4=[[Southern Bantoid]] |fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] ([[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages#Zone C|Zone C.70]]) |fam6=[[Bangi–Tetela languages|Bangi–Tetela]]? |glotto=kusu1254 |glottoname=Tetela + Bushoong |glottorefname=Kusu-Nkutsu }}

The '''Tetela languages''' are a clade of [[Bantu language]]s coded Zone C.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), together with C.81 Dengese and C.89, the Shuwa "dialect" of [[Bushoong language|Bushoong]], the languages form a valid node. They are: : [[Tetela language|Tetela]]–[[Hamba language|Hamba]], [[Kusu language|Kusu]], [[Nkutu language|Nkutu]], [[Yela language|Yela]], [[Ombo language|Ombo]], (C80) [[Dengese language|Dengese]], [[Shuwa language|Shuwa]] (Pianga)

However, Yela is the same language as [[Kela language|Kela]], which is classified differently.

Maho (2009) adds [[Langa language|Langa]] to C.70.

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==References== * {{cite book |editor1-last=Nurse |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Philippson |editor2-first=Gérard |title=The Bantu languages |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780700711345}}

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