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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola |
Ethnicity | Yaka |
Native speakers | 900,000 (2000)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | Variously:yaf – Kiyakanoq – Ngoongoppp – Pelende (duplicate code)lnz – Lonzo (duplicate code) |
Glottolog | yaka1269 |
H.31 [2] |
Yaka, also spelled Iaca and Iyaka, is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. There are two dialects, Yaka proper, which comprises 99% of speakers, and Ngoongo (distinguish West Ngongo language).[2] The alleged varieties Pelende and Lonzo are political rather than ethnolinguistic entities.[3]
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