Ngbandin.adj.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 925/1 The Banza and the Mogwandi are large tribes living in the region between the Congo and the Ubangi.]

1931 Man 31 52/2 Father Tanghe..has put Africanists under further obligation by producing..an historical account of the Ngbandi, a people commonly known under the name of Mongwandi.

1993 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 5 Feb. 7 Mobutu's special presidential guards are mainly drawn from his tribe, the Ngbandi.

1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Mar. a10/1 Under Mr. Mobutu they were dominated by members of his tribe, the Ngbandi.

1931 Man 31 53/1 The folk-lore is given in Ngbandi with a translation and, when necessary, with an explanation.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating 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.

1996 Jrnl. Black Stud. 27 13 Sango, a pidginized variety of Ngbandi, spoken widely in west-central Africa.

1931 Man 31 52/2 Only such individuals are recognized as tribesmen who are Ngbandi by descent and speak the Sudanic Ngandi [sic] language.

1967 W. J. Samarin Gram. 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.

1991 Times (Nexis) 20 Aug. A newly formed unit of South African-trained security police, who are mostly members of Mr Mobutu's own Ngbandi tribe.