37.2173, Books: A Grammatical Survey of Bangala: Kunzmann, Meeuwis, and Nassenstein (2026)

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Date: 22-Jun-2026
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammatical Survey of Bangala: Kunzmann, Meeuwis, and Nassenstein (2026)


Title: A grammatical survey of Bangala
Series Title: Languages of the World/Material 520
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d%2FProducts%2F%22ISBN%209783969392997%22

Author(s): Janika Kunzmann, Michael Meeuwis, and Nico Nassenstein
(Ghent University & Johannes Gutenberg University Main; Ghent
University; Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and
Africa (ILCAA) & Tokyo University of Foreign Studies  )

17x24. ISBN 9783969392997. Languages of the World/Material 520. 99pp.
2026. EUR 66.80.

Abstract:

This work presents a first broad and systematic grammar sketch of
Bangala, a contact language of Central Africa spoken by approximately
2 to 3 million speakers in the northeastern parts of the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Like Lingala, Bangala’s “sister language”, it
emerged in the late 19th century from the pidginization of Bobangi in
the context of very early colonial and missionary activities. Later
introduced by the colonial state as a lingua franca, Bangala spread
widely across areas north and north-east of the Congo River. The
language has been shaped by these past pidginization processes as well
as by large-scale language contact. It is spoken in the contact zone
between Bantu and non-Bantu/non-Niger-Congo languages and extends
across a highly multilingual area. Bangala reflects the heterogeneous
backgrounds of its speakers, who use Bangala as one of the many
languages in their complex linguistic repertoires. Especially among
the younger generations, the data show varying degrees of influence
from Lingala, to which many of them appear to be shifting. With this
grammar sketch, the authors aim to provide a foundation for further
and more in-depth analyses of the understudied language Bangala in all
its complexities.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Bangala (bxg, bang1353)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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