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Mongo1|ˈmɒŋgəʊ|
Also Lomongo.
[Native name.]
A Bantu people living in Zaïre (formerly the Belgian Congo); a member of this people; the language of this people. Also attrib.
1906Visct. Mountmorres Congo Independent State 45 East of the Launoa..the Mongo, perhaps on account of their contact with the Arabised tribes..appear to have advanced to a much higher state of civilisation than in other parts. 1910Encycl. Brit. VI. 925/1 Farther north and largely occupying the valley of the Ruki are the Mongo, a large forest tribe. 1919A. Werner Introd. Sketch Bantu Lang. 314 Congo,..the languages included under this heading are..Lolo (Mongo, Lunkundu)—on the Equator within the great northern bend of the Congo. 1928E. A. & L. Ruskin Dict. Lomongo Lang. Introd., Lomongo belongs to the Bantu group of languages and is spoken by at least 300,000 people, dwelling in Middle Belgian Congo, north and south of the equator. 1946Nature 6 July 14/2 Important monographs were produced on the Mongo, Basongo, and Bakongo. 1961G. Greene Burnt-Out Case vi. i. 178 She remembered..her father teaching her the Mongo for ‘bread’ and ‘coffee’ and ‘jam’. They were still the only three words in Mongo that she knew. 1961Listener 16 Nov. 831/1 If the Mongo tribes had been contained within a single province..the prospect of maintaining an independent Congo as a single state would hardly have been worth considering. |