North Teke language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo languages Benue - Congo languages Bantoide languages Bantu languages Teke Tege

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Teg

Teke Tege (also Iteghe, Katege, Ketego, Tege, North - Teke, Tege, Teghe, Teke Teke Alima and Kali ) is a Bantu language and is spoken by about 65,000 people in the Republic of Congo and Gabon.

It is in the Republic of Congo in the department in the districts of Cuvette Ewo and Okoyo and in the department in the district Plateaux Abala with 49,300 speakers and in Gabon in the province of Haut - Ogooué east of Franceville west of the river Mpama spread with 15,700 speakers.

Teke Tege is written in the Latin script, about 60 % of second -language speakers can read and write them.

Classification

Teke Tege forms with the languages ​​Ngungwel, Tchitchege, Teke, Teke - Eboo, Teke - Fuumu, Teke - Laali, Teke - Nzikou, Teke - Kukuya, Teke - Tsaayi, Teke - Tyee Yaka and the Teke group. After the classification of Malcolm Guthrie Teke Tege belongs to the Guthrie - area B70.

81 % of the vocabulary have common features with the vocabulary of Ombamba, 79 % with the Teke - Eboo, 75% of Teke - Kukuya, 77 % with that of Ngungwel, 76 % with the Teke - Tyee, 74 % of the Mbere and 73 % with the Teke - Laali and Teke - Tsaayi.

Teke Tege has the dialects Kateghe (also Nzikini ) and Keteghe.