Suku language

Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
Suku
Kisuku
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
EthnicitySuku people
Native speakers
(50,000 cited 1980)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3sub
Glottologsuku1259
H.32[2]

Suku is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003)[3] accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu.

References

  1. ^ Suku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.
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