Kimbundu dili
Bazen Mbundu dili[1] veya Kuzey Mbundu dili (Güney Mbundusu olarak adlandırılan Umbundu dilinden ayırt etmek için)[2] adlandırılan bir Bantu dili olan Kimbundu dili, Angola'da en yaygın konuşulan ikinci Bantu dilidir.
Dili konuşanlar ülkenin kuzeybatısında, özellikle Luanda, Bengo, Malanje ve Cuanza Norte illerinde yoğunlaşmıştır. Ambundular tarafından konuşulmaktadır.[3]
| Northern Mbundu | |
|---|---|
| Kişi | Mumbundu |
| Halk | Ambundu or Akwambundu |
| Dil | Kimbundu |
| Ülke | Ndongo and Matamba |
Kaynakça
[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]- ^ A language name 'mbundu' was used by Guthrie in his 1948 classification, for his group R10 (the language is Umbundu, the Ovimbundu's language. Kimbundu is found as Ndongo-H21). This has become obsolete: In his 1971 classification, the group H20 is called the Kimbundu group, and the R10 group is called Umbundu group. See: M. Guthrie, The Classification of the Bantu Languages (OUP, 1948), and M. Guthrie, Comparative Bantu, Vol 2 (Gregg Press, 1971). Glottolog classifies Kimbundu in a Mbundu group, which is in the Northern Njila group, and Umbundu (the Ovimbundu's language) in the Kunene group, which is itself in the Southern Njila group. see the Glottolog entry
- ^ "Narrow Bantu "H"". International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 1 Ocak 2003. s. 115. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195139778.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-513977-8.
- ^ Ambundu is the short form for Akwa Mbundu, where 'Akwa' means 'from', or 'of', or more originally 'originally from' and 'belonging to'. In Kimbundu language, the particle Akwa is shortened into simply A, so that instead of Akwa Mbndu, it becomes Ambundu; similarly the term Akwa Ngola becomes ANgola, then Angola. Ngola was the title for kings in the historic Northern Angolan kingdom, before the Portuguese invasion.
