| Language name: | TEKE |
| UPSID number: | 4127 |
| Alternate name(s): | KUKUYA |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Bantoid |
| This language has | 28 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.484241368 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b m f mD pf bv w t d n s l nj tS dZ j k g N i "e a "o u I U h |
| Comment: | Stops and affricates also occur prenasalized but many of these occurrences result from prefixation, so all are analyzed as biphonemic; /g/ only occurs with a preceding nasal. The highest vowels /i, u/ occur distinctively only as first vowel in a CVV sequence and introduce fricative transitions on the preceding C. |
| Source(s): | Paulian, C. 1975. Le Kukya, Langue Teke du Congo (Bibliotheque de la SELAF 49-50). SELAF, Paris. |