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Encyclopedia > Bobangi

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Congo-Brazzaville Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. ...


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Lingala: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1745 words)
The origins of Lingala lie in Bobangi, a language that was spoken along the Congo River between Lisala and Kinshasa.
Bobangi functioned as a regional trade language before the genesis of Congo Free State.
In the last two decades of the 19th century, after King Leopold II of Belgium stimulated the exploration and occupation of the area, Bobangi came into wider use.
Contact Languages in the Bantu Area (6659 words)
Otherwise, Lingalaís lexifier is primarily Bobangi (Alexandre 1967, Samarin 1982, Hulstaert 1989).
Samarin (1982) and Hulstaert (1989) agree that Bobangi was the riverine trade language between Stanley Pool and Irebu, south of the Congo River bend, before the late nineteenth century.
We may also surmise that the predominance of the local populations speaking languages typologically close to Bobangi (among those who accom‚modated the colonists and missionaries in what they assumed to be the latterís language) kept Lingala close to the Bantu canon.
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