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The Bangi language, or Bobangi, is a relative and main lexical source of Lingala spoken in central Africa. Dialects of the language are spoken on both sides of the Ubangi River and Congo River.

Bangi
Bobangi
Native toRepublic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Native speakers
120,000 (2000)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Southern Bantoid
            • Bantu (Zone C)
              • Bangi–Ntomba
                • Bangi–Moi
                  • Bangi
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
bni  Bangi
mow  Moi
Glottologbang1354  Bobangi
moic1236  Moi
Guthrie code
C.32[2]

Use in trade


As the Bobangi people came to dominate the slave trade along the upper Congo River in the late 18th century, the Bangi language was used to facilitate trade between different ethnic groups in the region. Linguist John Whitehead claimed that the Moye, Likuba, Bonga, Mpama, Lusakani, and Bangala (peuple) [fr] peoples all used Bangi for intercommunication in the 1890s. Traders in the region who did not speak Bangi used a trade language that borrowed heavily from Bangi.[3] At the height of indigenous trade along the upper river, the Bobangi dominated the 500 kilometer section of the Congo between the Kwah River and the equator, which most river trade passed through.[4] Other ethnic groups in this area were either assimilated into the Bobangi ethnic alliance, adopting the Bangi language, or were driven off.[5] However, the Bobangi dominance over trade was ended by Europeans in the late 19th century when colonial powers pushed local indigenous groups out of profitable trade. By the late twentieth century, there were very few Bobangi people remaining in the area they had controlled a century earlier, and the Bangi language is no longer widespread.[4]


Sources and references



References


  1. Bangi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Moi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Harns, Robert W. (1981). River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0300026161.
  4. Harms. River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. p. 7.
  5. Harms. River of Wealth, River of Sorrow. pp. 129–130.

На других языках


[de] Bangi

Bangi (auch Bobangi, Bubangi, Bungi, Dzamba, Lobobangi und Rebuist) ist eine Bantusprache, die von circa 111.300 Menschen (Zensus 2000) in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo und der Republik Kongo gesprochen wird. Sie ist in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo in der ehemaligen Provinz Équateur östlich des Flusses Kongo mit circa 50.900 und in der Republik Kongo im Departement Cuvette mit circa 60.400 Sprechern verbreitet.
- [en] Bangi language

[fr] Bobangi (langue)

Le bobangi ou dzamba est une langue bantoue parlée au nord et au sud du confluent entre le fleuve Congo et l’Ubangi, de Mbandaka à Bolobo, autant au Congo-Kinshasa qu'au Congo-Brazzaville. C’est la langue des Bobangis.



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