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Apprendre le kongo: (le monokutuba, le kikongo ya leta, le kituba) Un dictionnaire grammatical
Paperback
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.
The three main centres of the language, with the name that its speakers themselves
give to the language they speak, are:
Kikwit - where people call their language Kikongo, although speakers of real Kikongo often refer to it as Monokutuba, a pejorative term that means Me Speak, with the implication that it is a creole. This is not entirely incorrect, but all the great linguae francae of world history have been creoles in some way or another, simplified versions of a more complex ancestor. We can mention French, which has lost the declensions of Latin, or Greek koïné, the language in which the New Testament was written, which has been greatly simplified compared to classical Greek.
Matadi - where people refer to their language as Kikongo ya Leta, the state language, heavily influenced by Lingala and Kiyombe.
Pointe Noire - where the variant is called Kituba, spoken throughout the western part of the Republic of Congo, as well as in part of the capital, Brazzaville. Kituba has absorbed large numbers of Lari words.
This dictionary - and its Lingala companion - uses a ground-breaking new system to help learners with some of the difficulties that learners of Bantu languages often face. These are some of the innovative and original features of our books:
Underlining of verb roots: All three of these languages are in the Bantu group. A characteristic of all Bantu languages is that they are built up from verb roots. We propose a new system wherein all verb roots are underlined to enable the researcher to make connections easily between seemingly unrelated words. For example, whereas the English words 'alcohol', 'intoxicate' and 'insanity' have no obvious common etymology, by underlining the root in the equivalent words in Kongo malavu, kulausa and kilawu, we see instantly that they are all derived from the verb root lauk-
, meaning 'to get drunk, go mad'.
Grammatical boxes in the body of the dictionary: Bantu languages use affixes to modify the meaning of the root, making dictionaries arranged according to the traditional pattern of very limited use for those not familiar with the grammatical structure. Many words in any given Bantu text will not feature as headwords. We have therefore used an original method, incorporating these affixes into the body of the dictionary, along with a brief grammatical explanation of their function, to enable the user to find the meaning of the word being researched. These boxes have a border to distinguish them from the headwords.
Explanation of cultural features: Many words relating to cultural practices and realities have no equivale
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