Teke–Mbere | |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone B) |
Child1: | Nzebi |
Child2: | Mbete |
Child3: | Teke |
Child4: | Songo |
Glottorefname: | Njebe–Mbete–Teke |
Teke–Mbere is a proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages, coded Zone B.50–80 in Guthrie's classification, along with the erstwhile Mbundu language Songo. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), they are:
Ethnologue suggests that the unclassified Songo "dialect" of Yansi (B.80) may be the same as the Songo here.