Bobangi can refer to: Bobangi language, a precursor of the Lingala language Bobangui, a village in the Central African Republic This disambiguation page...
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Lingala (redirect from Pidgin Bobangi)
language of the river", or "Bobangi-pidgin", among other names. In 1884, Europeans introduced this restructured variety of Bobangi in the state post Bangala...
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Bangi language (redirect from Bobangi language)
The Bangi language, or Bobangi, is a relative and main lexical source of Lingala spoken in central Africa. Dialects of the language are spoken on both...
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dramatically, and the regional slave trade grew, dominated by Bobangi traders. The Bobangi also purchased many slaves with profits from selling ivory, whom...
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Bangassou Kingdom along the Ubangi River. In the mid 19th century, the Bobangi people became major slave traders and sold their captives to the Americas...
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de Boeck 1948; Motingea Mangulu 1996 C30: Bangi-Ntomba C32 bni Bangi (Bobangi, Bubangi, Lobobangi) Whitehead 1899 C30: Bangi-Ntomba C32 (= C38) mow Moi...
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Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the Ubangi itself was named from the Bobangi word for the "rapids" located beside the settlement, which marked the end...
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need of a common language for the region, adopted a simplified form of Bobangi, the language of the Bangala people, which became Lingala. Spoken Lingala...
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on the Congo River. By the late eighteenth centuries slaves from the "Bobangi" area beyond the Teke area were a significant percentage of exports. Although...
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to Loango, the mouth of the river and south of the Kongo Kingdom. The Bobangis, sometimes called Bangala (people of the river), occupied the major part...
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tribe is that of the Banunu people, who originate from upriver and whose Bobangi language was the former trade language for the area. Lingala, one of the...
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or to the slave ports and factories along the West African coast. The Bobangi people became major slave traders[when?] and sold their captives to the...
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Kwala, C27 Kuba, [C201 Bwenyi] C30: C31a Loi, C31b Ngiri, C31c Nunu, C32 Bobangi, C33 Sengele, C34 Sakata, C35a Ntomba, C35b Bolia, C36a Poto, C36b Mpesa...
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Mondele, or mundelé, (pl. mindele) is a Bobangi term meaning "white" (white man, not the color, mpembe) European-style person, person with light skin...
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a variant of the word Nzambi or Nyambi, which is used by the people of Bobangi in reference to a supreme deity. The name Njambe is also used by the Kuba...
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Hanolet was reported to have forcibly ended the trade in slaves by the Bobangi in the Bangui-Zongo area, although slaves do not seem to have formed a...
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employed by the Europeans, which began around 1883. Because the Bayanzi and Bobangi spoke variants of the Bangala language, this became a lingua franca in...
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constructed from elements of Bangala and other Bantu languages including Bobangi, Mabale and Iboko, has 25 million speakers worldwide, and has become a...
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