Kele languages

Kele
Kele
Sheke
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone B.20) Kele–Tsogo? Kele; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None; grea1288 (Ndasaic); kele1262 (Ngomic)

The Kele or Sheke languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone B.20 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart possibly from Seki (Sheke) (B.21) itself, the languages form a valid node. They are:

Lengue, Ndasa, Sigu (Sighu), Kele (Dikele), Ngom, Mbangwe, Wumbvu, Kota, Shake (Sake), Mahongwe, ?Seki (Sheke)

Maho (2009) adds B203 Sama, B204 Ndambomo, B205 Metombola.

Kele
Sheke
Linguistic classification	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone B.20) Kele–Tsogo? Kele
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None `grea1288` (Ndasaic) `kele1262` (Ngomic)

Kele languages

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