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A Dialectal Difference across Kikongo Varieties in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Case of Kimanyanga and Kindibu

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natural language processing

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paper
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The current paper has examined the dialectal difference between Kimanyanga and Kindibu, the two varieties of Kikongo spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mainly in the province of Kongo Central. It has been disclosed that there are vowel and consonant change in both Kimanyanga and Kindibu lexicons. In syntax, topicalisation is applied differently and the primary verbs Be and Have are not similar, either in the two varieties. Semantically, there are many free variation and an instance of false cognate has been disclosed.

Languages

KitubaKongoKongo, San SalvadorKoongo

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https://www.ijsmsjournal.org

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