Teke-Tsaayi

TYI

threatened

Alternate Names: Getsaayi, Tsaayi, Tsaya, Tsaye, Tsayi, West Teke

Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 76% with Tyee ,, 80% with Kukuya ,.

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Volta-Congo
Benue-Congo
Bantoid
Southern
Narrow Bantu
Northwest
B
Teke (B.73)

Demographics: 95,900 (2000). 454,000 all Teke languages in Congo (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001).

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Congo