Kikongo

The kikongo is a spoken language by the Kongo ( bakongo in kikongo) alive in Angola, Democratic republic of Congo (in the provinces of the Low-Congo, the Bandundu and the Kinshasa), and in République of Congo (in the south-western area until Brazzaville).

Kituba

The Munukutuba (or Kituba), one of the official languages of Congo-Brazzaville is a simplified and vehicular, comprehensible kikongo by the speakers of the various dialects of the kikongo.

In Congo-Kinshasa, the constitution specifies that the kikongo is one of the four national languages, but the kituba is the language used in the administration. This can be explained by the fact why kikongo , kikongo ya Leta and kituba is generally used like synonyms.

History

An Italian capuchin , Brother Bonaventura da Sardegna, was the first to write a grammar kikongo at the time of his mission to the Royaume Kongo about 1645 Hiacinto Brusciotto de Vetralla writes a work on grammar kikongo in 1659: Regulae quaedam pro difficillimi congensium idiomatis faciliori captu AD grammaticae normam redactae , Romae: Typis S. Congreg. of Propaganda Fide.

Classification

The kikongo belongs to the family of the Langues bantoues.

Malcolm Guthrie classifies the languages kikongos H10 in the following way:

  • Language of the core kikongo H16
    • southernmost Kikongo H16a
    • central Kikongo H16b
    • Yombe H16c
    • Fiote H16d
    • Western Kikongo H16d
    • Bwende H16e
    • Lari H16f
    • Eastern Kikongo H16g
    • south-eastern Kikongo H16h
The other languages of the group are the Bembe (H11), the vili (H12), the Kunyi (H13), the Ndingi (H14) and the Mboka (H15). The classification of Bastin, Cross and Man, known as among Tervuren and that of SIL (H10) are more recent and are more precise on the names of the languages kikongos.

Geographical distribution

The languages kikongo are spoken in:
  • South of Congo-Brazzaville:
    • area of Kouilou,
      • Southern
    • of the area of the Niari,
    • area of Bouenza,
    • south-western half of the area of the Pool;
  • the South-west of Congo-Kinshasa:
    • province of the Low-Congo,
    • left the province city of Kinshasa,
    • district of Kwilu and the town of Bandundu,
    • district of the Kwango,
    • extreme west of the Kasaï-Westerner;
  • the North-West of Angola:
    • province of Cabinda,
    • province of Uige,
    • province of Zaire,
    • Northern of the provinces of Bengo and Northern Cuanza;
  • the southern part of Gabon.


Examples

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Resources kikongo
  • Dictionary of pocket: French-kikongo

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