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Kongo Languages
The Kongo languages are a clade of Bantu languages, coded Zone H.10 in Guthrie's classification, that are spoken by the Bakongo: : Beembe (Pangwa, Doondo, Kamba, Hangala), Ndingi, Kunyi, Mboka, Kongo, Western Kongo, Laari (Laadi), Vili, Yombe, Suundi Languages ''Glottolog'', based on Koen Bostoen (2018, 2019), classifies two dozen languages of the Kongo language cluster as follows: *Kikongo language cluster **Hungan-Samba: Hungan, Samba **Nuclear cluster ***Yaka-Suku: Suku, Yaka-Pelende-Lonzo ***"Kikongoic" **** Beembe ****Kambakunyic Kikongo *****Kamba-Kunyi: Kaamba, Kunyi *****Kilaadic Kikongo ******Nuclear Northern Kikongo: Doondo, Laari, Suundi ******Central-Southern Kikongo *******Southeastern Kikongo ******** Eastern Kikongo ********Southern Kikongo: Hungu-Pombo, Koongo-Kituba (Congo Kituba, DRC Kituba, South-Central Koongo) *******West Kikongo ******** San Salvador Kongo ******** Yombe ********Vilic ********* Vili *********Lumbuic **********Lumbu Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vili Language
Vili (''Civili'') is one of the Zone H Bantu languages, grouped with the Kongo clade. The language has a few thousand native speakers in spread along the coast between southern Gabon and Cabinda, most of them in the Republic of the Congo's Kouilou, Pointe-Noire and Niari departments. The Vili people (singular ''Muvili'', plural ''Bavili'') were the population of the 17th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Loango in the same region. References External links Viliat WolframAlpha WolframAlpha ( ) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It answers factual queries by computing answers from externally sourced data. WolframAlpha was released on May 18, 2009 and is based on Wolfram's earlier product Wolfram Mathe ... Languages of the Republic of the Congo Languages of Gabon Kongo language {{Bantu-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Salvador Kongo Language
Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Angola. It is a tonal language. It was spoken by many of those who were taken from the region and sold as slaves in the Americas. For this reason, while Kongo still is spoken in the above-mentioned countries, creolized forms of the language are found in ritual speech of Afro-American religions, especially in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is also one of the sources of the Gullah language and the Palenquero creole in Colombia. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo, with perhaps two million more who use it as a second language. Geographic distribution Kongo was the language of the Kingdom of Kongo prior to the creation of Angola by the Portuguese Crown in 1575 and the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) that balkaniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koongo Language
Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Angola. It is a tonal language. It was spoken by many of those who were taken from the region and sold as slaves in the Americas. For this reason, while Kongo still is spoken in the above-mentioned countries, creolized forms of the language are found in ritual speech of Afro-American religions, especially in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is also one of the sources of the Gullah language and the Palenquero creole in Colombia. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo, with perhaps two million more who use it as a second language. Geographic distribution Kongo was the language of the Kingdom of Kongo prior to the creation of Angola by the Portuguese Crown in 1575 and the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) that balkanized the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kituba Language
Kituba ( mkw, Kituba, ktu, Kikongo ya leta) is a widely used lingua franca in Central Africa. It is a creole language based on Kikongo, a Bantu language. It is a national language in Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Names Kituba is known by many names among its speakers. In academic circles the language is called ''Kituba'' or ''Kikongo-Kituba''. In the Republic of the Congo it is called ''Munukutuba'' or ''Kituba''. The former (also spelled ''Monokutuba'') is a phrase which means literally "I say", and is used in the Republic's 1992 constitution. The latter means "way of speaking" and is used in the 2015 constitution. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo it is called ''Kikongo ya leta'' ("the state's Kikongo" or "Government Kikongo"), or Kikongo de L'état, shortened to ''Kileta''. Confusingly, it is also called ''Kikongo'', especially in areas that lack Kongo (Kikongo) speakers. The constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo lists "Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungu-Pombo Language
Holo is a Bantu language of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... Yeci, Samba or Hungu may be separate languages. References Pende languages {{DRCongo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Kikongo Language
Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Angola. It is a tonal language. It was spoken by many of those who were taken from the region and sold as slaves in the Americas. For this reason, while Kongo still is spoken in the above-mentioned countries, creolized forms of the language are found in ritual speech of Afro-American religions, especially in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. It is also one of the sources of the Gullah language and the Palenquero creole in Colombia. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo, with perhaps two million more who use it as a second language. Geographic distribution Kongo was the language of the Kingdom of Kongo prior to the creation of Angola by the Portuguese Crown in 1575 and the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) that balkani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doondo Language
Bembe (Kibeembe) is a Bantu language of Congo-Brazzaville. It is closely related to Kikongo. ''Pangwa'' (not the Pangwa of Tanzania) may be a dialect. Maho (2009) considers Beembe, Kamba-Doondo, and Hangala (Ghaangala) to be distinct languages. It should not be confused with the Bembe language (Ibembe) Bembe (Kibembe or Ebembe) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Tanzania. According to ''Ethnologue'', it forms a dialect continuum with the Lega language Lega is a Bantu language, or dialect cluster, of the ... spoken in Congo-Kinshasa and Tanzania. References External linksThe Noun Phrase in Kibembe (D54) Kongo language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaamba Language
Bembe (Kibeembe) is a Bantu language of Congo-Brazzaville. It is closely related to Kikongo. ''Pangwa'' (not the Pangwa of Tanzania) may be a dialect. Maho (2009) considers Beembe, Kamba-Doondo, and Hangala (Ghaangala) to be distinct languages. It should not be confused with the Bembe language (Ibembe) Bembe (Kibembe or Ebembe) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Tanzania. According to ''Ethnologue'', it forms a dialect continuum with the Lega language Lega is a Bantu language, or dialect cluster, of t ... spoken in Congo-Kinshasa and Tanzania. References External linksThe Noun Phrase in Kibembe (D54) Kongo language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suku Language
Suku is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... There is some debate about its classification. Nurse & Philippson (2003) accept its traditional classification in the Yaka branch of Bantu. References {{Authority control Yaka languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samba Language
Holo is a Bantu language of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... Yeci, Samba or Hungu may be separate languages. References Pende languages {{DRCongo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
