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North Teke language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ36478 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Teke, or Tɛgɛ (Tege, Teghe, Itege), is a member of the Teke languages dialect continuum of the Congolese plateau.

Phonology

Consonants

/b/ can also be heard as [ɓ] in free variation.

/ɡ/ can be heard as [ɣ] when in between vowels.

Sounds /d͡ʒ, ⁿt͡ʃ, ⁿd͡ʒ/ can also be heard as alveolar [d͡z, ⁿt͡s, ⁿd͡z] in free variation.

The following sounds can be labialized as [bʷ, kʷ, fʷ, sʷ, d͡zʷ, ɲʷ, lʷ, mʷ, ᵐbʷ, ⁿt͡ʃʷ, ⁿd͡ʒʷ, ᵑkʷ, ᵑɡʷ].

The labialized sounds /kʷ, ᵑkʷ/ can also be heard as [k͡p, ᵑk͡p].

The following sounds can be palatalized as [pʲ, bʲ, kʲ, fʲ, sʲ, t͡sʲ, lʲ, mʲ, ᵐpʲ, ᵐbʲ, ⁿt͡ʃʲ].

Vowels

Sounds /i, a, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, ə, ʊ] in lax position.

Alphabet

References

Works cited

Linton, Pauline (2013). "L'alphabet latege".

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The public source identifies “North Teke language” as language. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around North, Teke and language.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with North, Teke and language providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “North Teke language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.