Le lokonda des Ilángá la Bakonda (C.64)

Un échantillon des langues inclassables du Bassin central congolais

Author: André Motingea Mangulu. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Bernd Heine.

Series: GA Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 56

2018
12 pp. Roman, 122 pp.
1 colour map, 1 b/w map, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): French
Format: 170 x 240 mm
270 g
Paperback
€ 36.80

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This grammatical sketch deals with the hitherto little-documented lect of the Ekonda-group Ilángá la Bakonda inhabiting the wetland area between the rivers Lotoi and Lokoro in the Mai-Ndombe District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lokonda language is neither taken into account in Malcolm Guthrie’s classification of Bantu languages of 1970, nor in Jouni Maho’s revised version of 2003. It was how­ever classified under the token C.64 among the languages of the Mongo-Nkundu group by Yvonne Bastin.

Due to the physiogeographic characteristics of the region, the Ilángá la Bakonda are exposed to rather limited direct contact with other groups and largely remained spared from the invasion of belligerent neighbouring groups like the Bombomba, for example. Therefore, their language is of great interest espe­cially from the perspective of Historical and Areal Linguistics.

Beyond the mere documentation of this Lokonda variety, the present sketch is thus intended to contribute to a better understanding of the history of language contact and migration in the Central Congo Basin.

The book is based on language data collected in the 1940s by P. Hugo Rombauts, a missionary of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, employing the Hulstaert questionnaire. The respective transcription is retained here to a large extent and only amended by tone markings.

In addition to Rombauts’ notes and other grammatical descriptions and dictionaries of related varieties, the present book incorporates primary data from an article by Jules de Boeck on Lokonda speech art as well as from a text of an Ekonda musical comedy registered by Daniel Vangroenweghe, which is contained in the appendix of this sketch including interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses.

CONTENTS

Cartes – Sigles et abréviations utilisés – Liste des tableaux – 1 Généralités – 2 Phonétique et phonologie: 2.1 Voyelles, 2.2 Consonnes, 2.3 Tons, 2.4 Syllabes – 3 Grammaire: 3.1 Système de classes et d’accords, 3.2 Classification nominale, 3.3 Adjectifs, 3.4 Pronominaux, 3.5 Substitutifs, 3.6 Verbaux, 3.7 Mots divers – Appendice : Texte – Références bibliographiques

 

Under these links you will find a dictionary of Bantu languages in the Kwilu region, south of the Mai-Ndombe province, and descriptions of further Congolese Bantu languages and cultures:

Accompanying material:

• A Lega and English Dictionary (D.25) (ISBN 978-3-927620-39-1)
• Directionality in Grammar and Discourse (ISBN 978-3-89645-899-5)
• Expérience végétale bolia (C.35b, République Démocratique du Congo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-037-1)
• Historical Language Contact in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-091-3)
• La dynamique des noms de personnes chez les Ding de la République démocratique du Congo (1885–1960) (ISBN 978-3-89645-896-4)
• Lexique comparé des langues bantu du Kwilu (République démocratique du Congo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-564-2)
• Luba-Sprichwörter (ISBN 978-3-927620-61-2)
• Ngiti (ISBN 978-3-927620-71-1)
• Perception of the Invisible (ISBN 978-3-89645-603-8)
• Swahili Proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISBN 978-3-89645-744-8)

Cross-reference:

• African Media Cultures – Cultures de médias en Afrique (ISBN 978-3-89645-246-7)
• Afrikanische Frauen und kulturelle Globalisierung / African Women and Cultural Globalization / Femmes africaines et globalisation culturelle (ISBN 978-3-89645-318-1)
• Afrophone Philosophies (ISBN 978-3-89645-251-1)
• Beside the State (ISBN 978-3-89645-254-2)
• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Global Heritage – Tradition and Innovation (ISBN 978-3-89645-249-8)
• Méthodologie des arts plastiques de l’Afrique Noire (ISBN 978-3-927620-92-6)
• The People of the Rwenzoris (ISBN 978-3-89645-421-8)
• Vorkoloniale Geschichte und Expansion der Avungara-Azande (ISBN 978-3-89645-209-2)

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