LOKELE

Ethnologue

Glottolog

Autres noms

ekele, kele, kili, likelo, yakusu

Localisation

– Géographie

Province de la Tshopo > Territoire d’Isangi, au long du fleuve Congo et du Lomami

– Langues voisines

nord: olombo (elles se partagent une longue frontière fluviale); est: komo, lengola; sud: mbole; ouest: topoke

– Doculectes du projet BANTURIVERS

• Yaombole : N 0°56'17.4" E 24°13'06.5"
• Yaekela: N 0°48′11″ E 24°17′40″

Classification

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

Variantes

Yaokandja, Yawemba, Foma

Spécificités linguistiques

7 voyelles, labiales-vélaires

Documentation

– Descriptions de la langue ou une de ses variétés

Amisa M. 2002. La syntaxe de la langue Angba. Kisangani: UNIKIS.

Gérard, [R.P.]. 1924. La langue lebéo, grammaire et vocabulaire. Bruxelles: A. Vromant, Kongo-Overzee Bibliotheek 13. (223 pages)

Ngbanga Bandombele. 2012. Les variantes Angba : Etude comparée. Kisangani: UNIKIS, Mémoire de DES.

Ngbanga Bandombele. 2007. Formes et opérations arithmétiques dans la langue Angba. Cahier de langues et cultures, n°1. CRLCA.

Ngbanga Bandombele & Chelo Lotsima. 2010. Dix leçons pour apprendre la langue Angba. Kisangani: CRLCA-BUTRAD.

– Ouvrages incluant plusieurs langues et/ou comparatifs

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.
Forfeitt, William. 19xx. Unpublished notes: Kele, Likangala, Abuja, Bwela, Lifoto, Ngombe.

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).

Michell, George Babington. 1906/09. Unpublished vocabularies of Hemba, Bambuttu, Lokele, Bambole, Bakumu.

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 Unpublished vocabularies: Bakusu, Moleka, Bangba, Babale, Babati, Lifoma, Yakusu, Topoke, Turumbu, Soko, Teke.

Stapleton, Walter H. 1903. Comparative handbook of Congo languages: being a comparative grammar of the eight principal languages spoken along the banks of the Congo river from the west coast of Africa to Stanley Falls, and of Swahili, the 'lingua franca' of the country stretching thence to the east coast. Yakusu (Congo Free State) & London: Baptist Missionary Soc.; Kegan Paul. xxiii+326pp.

Stapleton, Walter H. 1905. Note on the terms used for 'right hand' and 'left hand' in the Bantu languages. Journal of the African Soc. 4. 431-433.

Tracey, Hugh T. 19xx. Kele, Mangbele, Ngala/Buja, Ngala. (Sound of Africa series, TR 129.) Grahamstown: International Library of African Music (ILAM).

– Ethnographies, histoire, littérature, etc.

Bokanga, Itindi. 1988. Bibliographie des Lokele. Cahiers des religions africaines 12. 143-174.

Carrington, John F. 1944. The drum language of the Lokele tribe. African studies 3. 75-88.

Carrington, John F. 1976. Wooden drums for inter-village telephony in central Africa. Journal of the Institute of Wood Science 7. 10-14.

Carrington, John F. 1991. Genres littéraires lokelé (haut-Zaïre). Annales Aequatoria 12. 471-474.

Johnston, Harry Hamilton. 1908. George Grenfell and the Congo: a history and description of the Congo Independent State and adjoining districts of Congoland, together with some account of the native peoples and their languages, the fauna and flora; and similar notes on the Cameroons and the island of Fernando Pô, the whole founded on the diaries and researches of the late Rev. George Grenfell, B.M.S., F.R.G.S.; and on the records of the British Baptist Missionary Society; and on additional information contributed by the author, by the Rev. Lawson Forfeitt, Mr Emil Torday, and others. London: Hutchinson & Co. xx+990pp. (2 vols).

Lokomba, Baruti. 1972. Structure et fonctionnement des institutions politiques traditionnelles ches les lokele. (Les cahiers du CEDAF (Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Africaines), série 2: administration, politique, histoire, 8.) Bruxelles.

Smith, H. Sutton. 1910. "Yakusu": The very heart of Africa. London: Marshall Brothers. 410pp.

Walle, Sombo Bolene. 1990. Les migrations des peuples du Bas-Lomami (Haut-Zaïre) du 17e au 18e siècle. Annales Aequatoria 11. 9-45.

Werner, J.R. 1889. The Congo, and the Ngala and Aruwimi tributaries. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography 11. 342-351.