Suku language
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Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
For the Sino-Tibetan language known as Suku or gSerkhu, see Lamo language.
Suku | |
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Kisuku | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Ethnicity | Suku people |
Native speakers | (50,000 cited 1980)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sub |
Glottolog | suku1259 |
H.32 [2] |
Suku is a
Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003)[3] accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu.
References
- ^ Suku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ISBN 9780700711345.
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