Reflexive Morphology in the Kikongo Language Cluster: Variation and Diachrony
LanguagesThis paper provides a comparative and diachronic account of reflexive morphology in the Kikongo language cluster, a genealogically closely related group of 40+ West Coastal Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom
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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-Vowel Language? Bantu Spirantization and Vowel Merger in the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
Linguistique et langues africaines, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Koen Bostoen
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Delivery and Safety of a Two-Dose Preventive Ebola Virus Disease Vaccine in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Participants during an Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [PDF]
VaccinesDuring the 2018–2020 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, residents in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, were offered a two-dose prophylactic EVD vaccine. This was the first study to evaluate the safety of this vaccine in pregnant women.
Hugo Kavunga-Membo +35 more
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On the Most Innovative Outer Access Structure of any Bantu Dictionary: The Lexique kikongo–français by Charles Polis (1938) [PDF]
Lexikos, 2015 In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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Missionárias brasileiras em Angola
Revista de Educação Popular, 2021 O artigo apresenta reflexões sobre práticas interculturais em Angola (África) narradas em 2008 por trinta religiosas da Congregação das Irmãs Catequistas Franciscanas (CICAF), ano em que a Congregação celebrava 25 anos de presença missionária entre os ...
Claricia Otto
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La création scénique dans le Ballet théâtre Lemba de Michel Rafa, un vecteur artistique pour la valorisation de l’identité culturelle africaine contemporaine [PDF]
ZiglôbithaRésumé : Co-fondateur du Ballet théâtre Lemba, Michel Rafa est l’un des pionniers et fervent défenseur de la culture kongo par le biais de la musique traditionnelle.
KOUASSI Kouakou Jean-Michel
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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ORALITÉ PROPHÉTIQUE ET CONSTRUCTION DU DISCOURS DÉCOLONIAL. ANALYSE LITTERAIRE DES DISCOURS EN KIKONGO DE SIMON KIMBANGU (1921) [PDF]
ZiglôbithaRésumé : Cet article propose une analyse littéraire et philologique de deux discours prononcés en kikongo en 1921 par Simon Kimbangu, figure majeure du mouvement spirituel et historique congolais.
MAMPASI Sebastião
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 Gisamba (ISO 639-3: smx) is a nearly undocumented and undescribed as well as highly endangered Bantu language spoken in the Kwilu and Kwango provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Sifra Van Acker, Koen Bostoen
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Fraseoloxía kôngò (H16): descrición das principais expresións idiomáticas [PDF]
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía GalegaÉ normal encontrármonos con construcións fixas, chamadas expresións idiomáticas, en calquera lingua natural. Estas expresións forman parte do patrimonio linguístico de cada pobo e reflicten a beleza dun idioma.
Inocente Luntadila Nlandu
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