Tetela (Otetela, Kitetela, Kikitatela), also Sungu, is a Bantu language of northern Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Tetela people.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Noun classes

Like other Bantu languages, Tetela grammar arranges nouns into a number of classes. The ancestral system had 22 classes (counting singular and plural as distinct according to the Meinhof system), with most Bantu languages sharing at least ten of them. !class!!semantics!!prefix!!singular!!translation!!plural!!translation !1, 2 !3, 4 !5, 6 !7, 8 ! 9, 10 ! 11, 10 ! 12, 13 ! 19, 13

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