ISO 639:FOM

Kele
Kele
Lokele
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Kisangani
Ethnicity	Kele people
Native speakers	(160,000 cited 1980)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu ( Zone C) Soko–Kele (C.50–60) Kele; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Foma;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	khy – inclusive code; Individual code:; fom – Foma
Glottolog	kele1255
Guthrie code	C.55, 56

The Kele language, or Lokele, is a Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the Kele people.

Foma (Lifoma) is a dialect.^[3]

References

^ Kele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Foma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices

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Kele
Lokele
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Region	Kisangani
Ethnicity	Kele people
Native speakers	(160,000 cited 1980)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu ( Zone C) Soko–Kele (C.50–60) Kele
Dialects	Foma
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`khy` – inclusive code Individual code: `fom` – Foma
Glottolog	`kele1255`
Guthrie code	`C.55, 56`^[2]