Soko languages

The Soko or Soko–Kele languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.50–60 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Mongo (Nkundo), the languages form a valid node. They are:

(C50) Mbesa, Soko (So), Poke, Lombo, Kele (Lokele, incl. Foma); (C60) Ngando (incl. Lalia)
Soko
Soko–Kele
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Glottologkele1261[1]

Maho (2009) adds Likile and Linga to C50. Ethnologue notes a Bantu but otherwise unclassified Moingi language on the river in the middle of Soko–Kele territory.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kele (C.60)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References

  • Nurse & Philippson (2003), The Bantu Languages.


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