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{{Short description|Proposed language family}}
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{{Infobox language family
|name=Teke–Mbere
|region=
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo]]
|fam3=[[Benue–Congo]]
|fam4=[[Southern Bantoid]]
|fam5=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] ([[Guthrie classification of Bantu languages#Zone B|Zone B]])
|child1=[[Nzebi languages|Nzebi]]
|child2=[[Mbete languages|Mbete]]
|child3=[[Teke languages|Teke]]
|child4=''[[Nsongo language|Songo]]''
|glotto=
|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:
*[[Nzebi languages|Nzebi]] (B.50)
*[[Mbete languages|Mbete]] (B.60)
*[[Teke languages|Teke]] (B.70–80)
*''[[Nsongo language|Songo]]'' (H.20)
''Ethnologue'' suggests that the unclassified [[Tsong language|Songo]] "dialect" of Yansi (B.80) may be the same as the Songo here.
==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Nurse |editor1-first=Derek |editor2-last=Philippson |editor2-first=Gérard |title=The Bantu languages |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780700711345}}
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