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Name: Lese
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Lesa; Lesse; Lissi; Walisi; Walese; Balese; Mbuti
Spoken in: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Number of speakers: 50,000 (1991 SIL) (Ethnologue)
Code: les
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Nilo-Saharan
Parent Subgroup: Mangbutu-Efe; Mangbutu-Mamvu-Lese-Mvuba-Efe (mane)
Child Dialects: Arumbi; Upstream Lese (les-aru) Lese Karo (les-les) Vukutu; Vonkutu; Obi (les-vuk) Fare (les-far) Ndese; Lese Dese (les-nde)

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