`zebra'

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Fri Apr 23 22:22:26 UTC 1999


Ralf-Stefan Georg <Georg at home.ivm.de> wrote:

>For the alleged "Congolese" source, I can only throw in that some oblique
>sources accessible to me narrow this down to an unnamed language "from
>Angola", one source giving the language name of /Bunda/. However, I've been
>unable to locate this language so far, neither on the map, nor in one of
>the language lists for Bantu lgs. available to me. I suspect that this lg.,
>if it exists, may be known by some alternative name to specialists. Maybe
>someone knows more about this.

Well if it's Angola, it's probably either Kimbundu (the lingua
franca of Luanda) or Umbundu (the language of the largest ethnic
group, the Ovimbundu).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam



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