Poke | |
States: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region: | Isangi Territory |
Speakers: | 130,000 |
Ref: | [1] |
Date: | 1984 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu (Zone C) |
Fam8: | Soko–Kele |
Iso3: | pof |
Glotto: | poke1238 |
Glottorefname: | Poke |
Guthrie: | C.53 |
The Poke language (also called Puki, Tofoke, Topoke or Tovoke), is in the Soko–Kele languages group of Bantu languages. It is spoken by the Topoke people of the Tshopo District, Isangi Territory, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]