Kiokon.
/kɪˈəʊkəʊ/ A member of an African people inhabiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola; (also) the language of this people. Also attributive or as adj.
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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
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Sesotho1846
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Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
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Kioko1884
Barotse1888
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Tumbuka1891
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1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 Equatorial Group:..Wa-Lunda, Kioko, Wa-Shinsh, [etc.].
1897 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind II. 376 It is otherwise with the Songos and Kiokos, who let you deal with them in the usual way.
1897 A. J. Butler tr. F. Ratzel Hist. Mankind II. 404 Here, Lunda will be spoken; there, perhaps only half a mile away, Kioko.
1907 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Instit. Great Brit. & Irel. 37 152 The Kioko people grew up in the neighbourhood of Cangombe.
1908 H. H. Johnston G. Grenfell & Congo I. xi. 194 Round him [sc. a person of Hima descent] a community would group itself... Thus..the kingdoms..of the Luba, Lunda, Kioko, and other Bantu countries came into existence.
1948 M. Guthrie Classif. Bantu Lang. Index 86/1 Kioko (A[ngola]).
1966 Chambers's Encycl. III. 50/1 Among the African Kioko, however, it is the availability of criminals for food that seems paramount.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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