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Lingala|lɪŋˈgɑːlə|
Also Ngala.
[Native name.]
A Bantu language spoken by the Bangala people in the Mangala area of Zaïre, widely used in trade and public affairs. Also attrib. or as adj.
1903W. H. Stapleton Compar. Handbk. Congo Lang. p. r, Bangala is a name originally given..to a people..from the settlement of Mangala... The dialect chosen and called Ngala is spoken by the Boloki..and Bokomoi on the South bank. 1922H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. II. vi. 130 At present we can only surmise that Group KK contains the following sub-groups:..KK4, the Lingala. 1945C. M. Doke Bantu 27 Ngala..is today called ‘Lingala’, though it is based on the speech of the Mangala people. 1965B.B.C. Handbk. 103 Moscow radio started transmissions in..Lingala, Nepalese. 1973Black World May 95/1 The Bolinga, the name for the Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, is a Lingala word meaning ‘love’. |