The Origins of Kituba and Lingala

Abstract

Considered here is the relationship between the nature of more-or-less pidginized Kituba and Lingala and their function as lingua francos in equatorial central Africa. It is argued that although they may have been preceded by widely known ethnic languages, it seems more probable that their pidginization and creation as lingua francas took place in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.

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