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单词 kikongo
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Kikongon.adj.

Brit. /kɪˈkɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /kiˈkɑŋɡoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– Ki-Congo, 1800s– Ki-Kongo, 1800s– Kikongo, 1900s– Kicongo, 1900s– Kikoongo.
Origin: A borrowing from Kongo. Etymon: Kongo kikôngo.
Etymology: < Kongo kikôngo, denoting any of a group of closely-related languages, and the group itself < ki- , class prefix denoting a language + -kôngo Kongo n. Compare earlier Kongo n. 2, Congolese n. 2, and Congoese n. 2.Compare also Kongo kisikôngo , denoting one of these languages (incorporating the element -isi- earth, land: see discussion at Kongo 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.
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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.
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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).
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