Soko languages

{{Short description|Clade of Bantu languages}}

{{distinguish|Kele languages}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Soko

|altname=Soko–Kele

|ethnicity=

|region=

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Southern Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu (Zone C.50–60)

|fam6=Bangi–Tetela?

|glotto=kele1261

|glottorefname=Kele (C.60)

}}

The Soko or Soko–Kele languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.50–60 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Mongo (Nkundo), the languages form a valid node. They are:

: (C50) Mbesa, Soko (So), Poke, Lombo, Kele (Lokele, incl. Foma); (C60) Ngando (incl. Lalia)

Maho (2009) adds Likile and Linga to C50. Ethnologue notes a Bantu but otherwise unclassified Moingi language on the river in the middle of Soko–Kele territory.