Complete FSI Lingala Basic Course (w/ Audio)-gctid84821

[Mani Kongo]

Complete FSI Lingala Basic Course (w/ Audio) :

Lingala is a lingua franca or trade language spoken in the areas on both sides of the Congo River from Leopoldville up to about a hundred miles from Stanleyville. Lingala, usually called Mangala by Kmtyws, was originally the language of the Bamangala, a Bantu tribe that has almost completely disappeared. Most speakers of Lingala are native speakers of another language and use Lingala as a means of communicating with other tribal groups and to a lesser extent with eureurasiaans; however, there is a growing number of younger people, especially in urban centers such as Leopoldville, whose native language is Lingala. Since Lingala is spoken by so many people of var1ed linguistic backgrounds, it is inevitable that the language as spoken in different areas should vary to a greater or lesser degree.

The speaker on whose speech these materials are based is from Leopoldville, a Child of parents who could not speak each other's language and who consequently always spoke Lingala with each other and with their children. Lingala has been a written language for quite some time, but unfortunately written or 'literary' Lingalais different in many ways from Lingala as it is nearly always spoken by Kmtyws. One can say without hesitation that literary Lingala is an invention of eureurasiaans who have tried to 'improve' on the language, because Kmtyws who speak Lingala fluently have trouble understanding literary Lingala even when it is spoken. This manual is based strictly on Lingala as spoken by the person described above.

The transcription system used in this manual is the orthography regularly used to write Lingala plus diacritic markings to indicate tone, which is not usually written, and to make it clear how a word or segment is pronounced in cases where the student may have difficulty interpreting the orthography. Some words have been respelled, but this is indicated in the footnotes the first time the respelling occurs.
From the Introduction

Leopoldville  = Kinshasa
Stanleyville = Kisangani

The textbook and the audio files :

Attached files  FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Student%20Text.pdf (11.2 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2001.mp3 (2.6 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2002.mp3 (2.8 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2003.mp3 (4.9 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2004.mp3 (5.3 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2005.mp3 (8.5 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2006.mp3 (6.3 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2007.mp3 (6.3 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2008.mp3 (7.1 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2009.mp3 (7.3 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2010.mp3 (6.7 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2011.mp3 (7.3 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2012.mp3 (8.4 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2013.mp3 (8.1 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2014.mp3 (8.4 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2015.mp3 (8.4 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2016.mp3 (9 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2017.mp3 (8.7 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2018.mp3 (10 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2019.mp3 (8.6 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2020.mp3 (8.8 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2021.mp3 (9.2 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2022.mp3 (10.1 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2023.mp3 (9 MB)   FSI%20-%20Lingala%20Basic%20Course%20-%20Unit%2024.mp3 (10.8 MB)

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ndéngé sort, kind, manner, way, quality

ndéngé na ndéngé all kinds of
ndéngé níni how
(p.260)

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mwáa small, little, few

atá, atáa even, even if, although
atá ndéle much later
(p.252)

bandá from, since, beginning, starting, continuing/starting from
(p.253)

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[Afia_Raina]

Yènge:Kmt:

[Mani Kongo]

Afia_Raina;176985 wrote: Yènge:Kmt:

Yènge kiâku (peace to you) Afia Raina!
:soldierg:

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Afia_Raina;176985 wrote: Yènge:Kmt:

Yènge kiâku! Glad to see you're all over the continent in grand Pan-Kmtyw fashion!

[Afia_Raina]

Aane! Setting foot every place I can.

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Afia_Raina;177873 wrote: Aane! Setting foot every place I can.

Make it do what it do!