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Kikongo

Kikongo

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A language spoken in parts of Central Africa, especially in the Congo region
  • proper noun
: kikongo
  • The Kikongo word phemba denotes 'the one who gives children in-potentia.'
  • Kikongo word

Examples

  • Extracts from these texts relative to music and musical instruments were included in the draft of a book that Laman intended to publish in KiKongo.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The rise of Western-alphabetic writing in Kikongo gave drivers and owners new media for deepening smooth passage with self-assertion and social commentary.

    Academic text (1996)

  • A typical Kikongo village in the Bas-Congo Province.

    Blog text (1)

  • 13 Just like fula-fula in Kikongo, it means quick-quick.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Similarly, Vili traders exploring to the north reinforced Kongo culture and Kikongo speech on the middle coast of present-day Gabon.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The present essay complements these sources with notes drawn from the original KiKongo texts of 1915, not only those in which the authors describe musical instruments but also the much more numerous ones in which instruments are mentioned in connection with particular minkisi (sing. nkisi).

    Academic text (2002)

  • It resulted in 10,000 manuscript pages, in Kikongo, of which a digest appeared in English as the four volumes of Laman's The Kongo (Uppsala, 1953-1967).

    Academic text (1995)

  • Many people in the Congo region communicate in Kikongo, a rich Bantu language.

  • In Kinshasa, you can hear conversations in Kikongo alongside French and Lingala.

  • Students at the university are studying Kikongo to better understand the local culture.

Synonyms

Kongo
vsKikongo
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A language spoken by the Kongo people in central Africa

is the broader regional form used across the Congo region rather than only forests
Kongo language
vsKikongo
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A language spoken by the Kongo people in Central Africa

is broader, referring to the Bantu language across parts of Central Africa

Surface Forms

Kikongo main

Etymology

Kikongo is the name of a Bantu language made from Ki- 'language of' and Kongo, the people and region related to the name 'Congo'. So Kikongo refers to the language spoken by those people in parts of Central Africa.