Tetela language
Tetela language
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| Tetela | |
|---|---|
| Ɔtɛtɛla | |
| Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Region | Northern Kasai Oriental Province |
Native speakers | (760,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tll – Tetelahba – Hamba |
| Glottolog | tete1253 Tetela[2]hamb1245 Hamba[3] |
Guthrie code | C.71[4] |
Tetela (Otetela, Kitetela, Kikitatela), also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Tetela people.
Noun classes [edit]
Like other Bantu languages, Tetela grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes (counting singular and plural as distinct according to the Meinhof system), with most Bantu languages sharing at least ten of them.
class semantics prefix singular translation plural translation 1, 2
personso-/ɔ-/w-, a- omfúnjí scribe, secretary amfúnjí
scribes, secretaries3, 4
trees, etco-/ɔ-/w-, e-/ɛ- ojja place ejja
places; region5, 6
variousdi-/dy-, a- dihamvú fruit of Chrysophyllum lacourtianum ahamvú
fruits of Chrysophyllum lacourtianum7, 8
variouske-/e-, di-/dy- kesashi chief disashi
chiefs9, 10
animals, etcØ-/N-, Ø-/N- mbódí goat mbódí
goats11, 10
abstract concepts, etclo-, N- lolémí language némí
languages12, 13
variouska-/k-, to-/t- kashikɛ
helmet (from French casque)toshikɛ
helmets19, 13
various°i- (complex morphology), to-/t- jɔ́ndɔ́ ??? tɔlɔ́ndɔ́
???
References[edit]
^ Tetela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tetela". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hamba de Lomela". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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