Suku language

For the Sino-Tibetan language known as Suku or gSerkhu, see Lamo language.

Suku
Kisuku
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethnicity	Suku people
Native speakers	(50,000 cited 1980)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone H) Yaka languages (H.30) Suku–Sonde Suku
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sub
Glottolog	suku1259
Guthrie code	H.32[2]

Suku is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003)^[3] accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu.

References

1. Suku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
3. Nurse, Derek; Philippson, Gérard, eds. (2003). The Bantu languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700711345.