| 释义 |
Ngbandi|ŋˈbændɪ|
[Native name.]
A Bantu language of the Central African Republic and northern Zaire.
1955J. H. Greenberg Studies in African Linguistic Classification 12 An enumeration of the membership of the Niger-Congo family by tentative genetic subfamilies follows:..14. Eastern Branch: Gbaya-Manjia,..Sango-Yakoma-Ngbandi. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 199 In Ngbandi, a language of northern Congo, tense distinctions are generally indicated by tonal differences on the subject pronouns, while aspectual differences are signaled by differences of tone on the verbs. 1967W. J. Samarin Grammar of Sango 17 Vernacular Sango, one of the dialects of the Ngbandi complex (which itself is a language of the Adamawa-Eastern group of Greenberg's Niger-Kordofanian), at one time came to be used as a lingua-franca. 1969Language XLV. 659 Sango is a pidginized variant of a Ngbandi language of the Central African Republic. |