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Kikongo, n.|kɪˈkɒŋgəʊ|
[Kikongo, f. ki- (cf. Kiswahili n.) + *Kongo n.]
= *Kongo n. b, used as a lingua franca in Zaire, Congo, and adjacent areas (see also quot. 1988).
[1884H. H. Johnston River Congo xvi. 400 The Ba-kongo group is split up into several separate tribes, all of which, however, speak more or less the same tongue, which is sometimes called Fiote (meaning ‘the common people’), and more correctly Ki-shi-kongo.] 1890H. Ward Five Years with Congo Cannibals iii. 32 By hard study I had become proficient in the Kikongo language. Ibid. v. 52 They call this people the Avumbi, from ‘vumbi’, the Kikongo for ‘corpse’. 1951tr. Traveller's Guide to Belgian Congo & Ruanda-Urundi ii. 60 Kikongo or Fiote, spoken in Bas-Congo, part of Kwango and even in Angola and French West Africa. 1988Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXXIII. 157 Pidginized Kikongo, the language that has come to be known as Kituba or vehicular Kikongo. |