单词 | kikongo |
释义 | Kikongon.adj. A. n. A group of Bantu languages and dialects spoken by the Kongo; any of these languages or dialects; = Kongo n. 2.Kikongo may be variously used to refer to a whole group of closely related languages or dialects, a subset of these, or a single one of them. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages > Kongo Kongo1837 Kikongo1882 1882 T. J. Comber Let. 28 Oct. in Missionary Herald (Baptist Missionary Soc.) (1883) Mar. 80/2 I could not make myself understood by speaking Kikongo. 1890 H. Ward Five Years with Congo Cannibals v. 52 They call this people the Avumbi, from ‘vumbi’, the Kikongo for ‘corpse’. 1951 tr. 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. 1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 157 Pidginized Kikongo, the language that has come to be known as Kituba or vehicular Kikongo. 2015 Jrnl. Adolescent & Adult Literacy 58 645/1 Prudence grew up speaking Kikongo and Lingala, two Bantu languages spoken in Congo. B. adj. Designating a language or dialect, or a group of languages or dialects, spoken by the Kongo; of or relating to these languages or dialects. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] Negrish1735 Temne1791 Nupe1841 Efik1849 Kikongo1885 Dagbani1917 Ngbandi1931 Zande1938 Voltaic1949 Mandinka1953 Ngbaka1955 Edo1957 Loma1957 Mandekan1968 Manding1969 Malinke1970 Mende1972 1885 H. M. Stanley Congo I. ix. 142 My clever interpreter, for at this period I knew not the Ki-Kongo dialect, put the above in perhaps still more forcible language. 1890 H. Ward Five Years with Congo Cannibals iii. 32 By hard study I had become proficient in the Kikongo language. 1960 Amer. Anthropologist 62 1093 The author relies heavily on Kikongo texts, deliberately letting the data—or the Bakongo—speak for themselves. 2017 C. Coquet-Mokoko tr. A. Mokoko Gampiot Kimbanguism (e-book ed.) viii The ruins of the former cathedral of Mbanza Kongo, which is also known as Kulumbimbi, from the Kikongo words nkulu (elder or lord) and mbi (evil). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1882 |
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