Tetela | |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone C.70) |
Fam6: | Bangi–Tetela? |
Glotto: | kusu1254 |
Glottoname: | Tetela + Bushoong |
Glottorefname: | Kusu-Nkutsu |
The Tetela languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.70 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), together with C.81 Dengese and C.89, the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are:
Tetela–Hamba, Kusu, Nkutu, Yela, Ombo, (C80) Dengese, Shuwa (Pianga)
However, Yela is the same language as Kela, which is classified differently.
Maho (2009) adds Langa to C.70.