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Apprendre le kongo: (le monokutuba, le kikongo ya leta, le kituba) Un dictionnaire grammatical

Apprendre le kongo: (le monokutuba, le kikongo ya leta, le kituba) Un dictionnaire grammatical

Stedman, John

Paperback

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ISBN10: 3982661048
ISBN13: 9783982661049
Publisher: Language Secret
Published: Sep 8 2024
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French

Kongo. One of the major lingu franc spoken in Central Africa. Monokutuba, Kikongo ya Leta and Kituba are three variants of one and the same language that some specialists call Kongo. This grammatical dictionary contains detailed explanations which show both the similarities and the differences between the three dialects. This book - both a dictionary and a grammar, and the very first of its kind - is the result of more than twenty years spent in the two Congos as well as with the Congolese diaspora in Europe. Kongo is a somewhat academic and linguistic term. Those who speak the language themselves call it Monokutuba, Kikongo ya Leta, Kituba, or just plain Kikongo, although this should not be confused with Kikongo proper, which is a separate though related language. The Kongo speech area extends from Pointe Noire on the Atlantic coast of the Republic of Congo to the eastern part of the former province of Bandundu in the DRC, a distance of more than a thousand kilometres. It is therefore not surprising that differences have been created between the variants of the language spoken at the two extremes of this vast area, especially since a linguistic island - that of Kinshasa Lingala - is located in the middle.

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