Tsege language

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Tsege
Tchitchege
Native to Gabon
Native speakers
 2,000 (2003) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tck
Glottolog tchi1245 [2]
B.701 [3]

The Tsege language, Tchitchege, is a member of the Teke dialect continuum of the western Congo Basin.

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References

  1. ↑ Tsege at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tchitchege". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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