Suku language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in DR Congo}}

{{For|the Sino-Tibetan language known as Suku or gSerkhu|Lamo language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Suku

|nativename=Kisuku

|states=Democratic Republic of the Congo

|ethnicity=Suku people

|speakers=50,000

|date=1980

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta-Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu (Zone H)

|fam8=Yaka languages (H.30)

|fam9=Suku–Sonde

|iso3=sub

|glotto=suku1259

|glottorefname=Suku

|guthrie=H.32

}}

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

There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003){{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}} accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu.