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Typology and Evolution of Diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster

Africana Linguistica, 2021
This article proposes both a typology of the variation which languages of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) manifest in terms of diminutive marking and a reconstruction of how this variation evolved through time. The high diversity of diminutives within this low‑level Bantu subgroup parallels the variation documented for the entire Bantu family.
Goes, Heidi, Bostoen, Koen
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British and American norms in the Trinidadian English lexicon

World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 73-90, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Previous work on norm orientations in the Caribbean Englishes has focussed largely on phonological norms, such as accents, and, to a lesser extent, grammatical norm orientation. Outside of the publication of dictionaries, however, lexical norms and their spread have received little attention.
Guyanne Wilson
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Access to opioid analgesics for medical use at hospital level in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An exploratory mixed‐method study

Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 53-63, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Objective To investigate the availability of and access to opioid analgesics at hospital level in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methods Exploratory mixed‐method study combining a descriptive survey of the availability of opioid analgesics at hospital pharmacies with a qualitative survey that explored the experiences and perceptions of ...
Jacques Zandibeni, Xavier de Béthune, Jean Debethel Bitumba, Jocelyn Mantempa, Léon Tshilolo, Jackie Ndona, Alain Kabemba Mbaya, Donatien Kabamb Kabey, Anselme Mubeneshayi Kananga, Raffaella Ravinetto   +9 more
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Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Plants Used in Nonconventional Medicine in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
Background. People with diabetes, herbalists, and traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) from Kinshasa use plants to treat diabetes, but no study has inventoried the plants used by these populations. The present study was conducted to identify the plants used in Kinshasa to treat diabetes mellitus. Methods.
Bashige Chiribagula Valentin, Okusa Ndjolo Philippe, Manya Mboni Henry, Félicien Mushagalusa Kasali, Liaqat Hussain   +4 more
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Intergenerational ethics in Africa: Duties to older adults in skipped generation households

Developing World Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 152-161, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper examines individual and societal duties to older adults in sub‐Saharan Africa who reside in skipped generation households, which are households in which a young and old generation live together with the middle generation absent. As they age, older adults in skipped generation households may lack the prospect of social and economic ...
Nancy S. Jecker
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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]

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Résumé : 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, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen   +2 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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On the Most Innovative Outer Access Structure of any Bantu Dictionary: The Lexique kikongo–français by Charles Polis (1938)

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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Inheritance and contact in the genesis of Gisamba (Bantu, L12a, DRC): A diachronic phonological approach

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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