• was the language of the Kuba Kingdom. Alternative names are Bushongo, Bushoong, Busoong, Shongo, Ganga, Kuba, Mbale, Bamongo, Mongo. Dialects are said...
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  • The Bushoong languages are a clade of Bantu languages coded Zone C.80 in Guthrie's classification. According to Nurse & Philippson (2003), apart from Dengese...
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    government was controlled by a king called the nyim who belonged to the Bushoong clan. The king was responsible to a court council of all the Kuba subgroups...
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    B80-C60-70-80: Boma–Dzing languages, Soko languages, Tetela languages, Bushoong languages B40-H10-30-B50-60-70: Sira languages, Kongo languages, Yaka languages...
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  • large part of Guthrie's Zone C (Motingea 1996): Bangi–Ntomba (Lingala, Mongo, etc.: mostly C.30) Soko–Kele (C50–60) Tetela (C70) Bushoong (C80) v t e...
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    are expected to contribute to the creation of cloth. There are multiple Bushoong proverbs that speak of collective ownership of the cloth and the responsibility...
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  • Lele language (Bantu) (category Bushoong languages)
    (also spelled Bashilele, Usilele) is a Bantu language belonging to the Bushoong group of languages. It is spoken mainly in the west edge of Kasaï Province...
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    babande, is practiced in many Ngeende, Ngongo, Mbeengi, Bokila, Shoowa and Bushoong villages in the central and northern Kuba region. Babanede initiation rites...
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    Hendo Hulstaert 1951; Motingea Mangulu 1990b C50: Soko-Kele group C83 buf Bushoong (Bushong, Bushongo, Busoong), Bakuba (Kuba, Bacuba), Batwa du Kasayi, Cwa...
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  • family Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Bushoong (C.80) Shuwa Language codes ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog pian1241 Guthrie...
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    The Shoowa people, a small population on the northwestern fringe of the Bushoong kingdom, Congo, have created visually delightful and colourful ceremonial...
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  • бурятский bub I/L Bua buc I/L Bushi bud I/L Ntcham bue I/E Beothuk buf I/L Bushoong бушонг bug bug I/L ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ Buginese bugi 布吉语 бугийский buh I/L Bunu, Younuo...
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  • Philippson (2003), together with C.81 Dengese and C.89, the Shuwa "dialect" of Bushoong, the languages form a valid node. They are: Tetela–Hamba, Kusu, Nkutu,...
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    the Bushoong and Chokwe networks and are impressed by the failure of the European ethnologist Emil Torday to solve the problem set to him by Bushoong children...
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    left hand, an ikul or peace knife, made in the style reserved for the Bushoong, the dominant sub-group of the Kuba. The wooden portraits were kept in...
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    Bati–Angba languages (Bwa) C50–60 Soko languages C70 Tetela languages C80 Bushoong languages Zone C is sometimes considered Forest Bantu, sometimes Savanna...
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  • Wongo language (category Bushoong languages)
    family Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Bushoong (C.80) Wongo Language codes ISO 639-3 won Glottolog wong1247 Guthrie code...
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  • Hendo language (category Bushoong languages)
    family Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Bushoong (C.80) Hendo Language codes ISO 639-3 soe Glottolog song1305 Guthrie code...
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