Ciluba

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Ciluba
Spoken in: Republiki ya Kongo Demokratiki
Region: Kasaï-Occidental, Kasaï-Oriental
Total speakers: 6.3 million (1991)
Ranking: See [1] Not in top 100
Genetic
classification:
Niger-Congo

 Atlantic-Congo
  Volta-Congo
   Benue-Congo
    Bantoid
     Narrow Bantu
      Ciluba

Official status
Lokóta ya Leta: -
Nkótá ya Ekólo: Republiki ya Kongo Demokratiki
Regulated by: -
Language codes
ISO 639-1 -
ISO 639-2 lua
SIL LUB
Carte
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Ciluba ezali lokótá na bato na Kasaï na Kɔ́ngɔ-demokratiki.

Etápe

[kobalola] Classification

Tshiluba belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages.

[kobalola] Geographic distribution

Tshiluba is spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


[kobalola] Dialects

There are significant dialect differences between the East Kasai Region (Baluba people) and the West Kasai Region (Bena Lulua people).

[kobalola] Vocabulary

The Bantu word identified in June 2004 by Today's Translations, a British translation company, as the most untranslatable in the world: ilunga, in the Tshiluba tongue, means "a person ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time". However, it is more likely to be a personal name rather than a difficult word.


[kobalola] Sources

  • MacIntyre, Ben. Why do Koreans say 'a biscuit would be nice' instead of 'I want a biscuit'?, The Times, August 21, 2004.


[kobalola] Mankasa olibanda Wikipedia



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