OLOM

Ethnologue

https://www.ethnologue.com/language/loo

Glottolog

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lomb1260

Other names

Lumbu, Kiturumbu, Tolombo, Turumbu, Ulumbu

Location

– Geography

Tshopo Province > language of the Turumbu, spoken to the West of Kisangani in an area bordered by the right bank of the Congo River shared with Lokele; a smaller Olombo area is situated West and Southwest of Basoko, at Lokutu and surroundings along the Congo River

– Neighboring languages:

North, East: Mba; South: Lokele; West: So, Angba

– Doculects of the BANTURIVERS project:

Yalibwa: N 0°56′38″ E 24°28′46″

Classification

Niger-Congo > … > Narrow Bantu > Central-Western > Upper Congo

Varieties:

Language characteristics

Documentation

– Description of the language or one of its varieties:

Capon, M. 1953. Les noms vernaculaires des principales essences forestières à yangambi (chez les turumbu). Bulletin agricole de Congo Belge 44. 91-118.

Carrington, John F. 1947. Notes sur la langue Olombo (Turumbu). Aequatoria 10. 102-113.

Chelo, Lotsima. 1973. Phonologie et morphologie de la langue olombo (Turumbu). (MA thesis, Lubumbashi: Université de Lubumbashi (UNILU); v+102pp.)

– Works including multiple languages, comparative works:

Bastin Y., Coupez A. & Mann M. 1999. Continuity and Divergence in the Bantu languages: perspectives from a lexicostatistic study. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa.
Grollemund, Rebecca, Simon Branford, Koen Bostoen, Andrew Meade, Chris Venditti and Mark Pagel. 2015. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112. 13296-13301.

Guthrie, Malcolm. 1971. Comparative Bantu: an introduction to the comparative linguistics and prehistory of the Bantu languages, 2: Bantu prehistory, inventory and indexes. London: Gregg International. 180pp.

Hulstaert, Gustaaf. 1951. Les langues de la cuvette centrale congolaise. Aequatoria 14. 18-24.

Johnston, Harry H. 1919, 1922. A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 840pp. ("Bibliography of the Bantu and semi-Bantu languages": v. 1. p. [785]-815).

Kadima, Kamuleta, Mutombo, H. M., Bokula, Moiso, Kabuyaya, K., Mbula, P., Tshimbombo, N., Maalu-Bungi, C., Motingea, Mangulu André, Makokila, N., Mundeke, O., Donzo, B. & Nsenga, I. M. 2008. Situation linguistique en Afrique Centrale: La République Démocratique du Congo: Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. (Atlas Linguistique de l'Afrique Centrale (ALAC).) Equipe Nationale Zaïroise: CERDOTOLA. 190pp.

Meeussen, Achille Emiel. 1954. The tones of prefixes in Common Bantu. Africa: journal of the International African Institute 24. 48-53.

Rommes, M. 1951. La situation linguistique dans les vicariats de Stanleyville et de Wamba. Kongo-Overzee 17. 240-249.

Stapleton, Walter H. 19xx. Unpublished vocabularies: Bakusu, Moleka, Bangba, Babale, Babati, Lifoma, Yakusu, Topoke, Turumbu, Soko, Teke.

– Ethnographies, history, literature, etc.:

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