Bongo language

Not to be confused with Bongo language (Indonesia).
Bongo
Native to South Sudan
Ethnicity Bongo people
Native speakers
 10,100 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bot
Glottolog bong1285[2]

Bongo (Bungu), also known as Dor, is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.

Numerals

Bongo has a quinary-vigesimal numeral system.[3]

Number Bongo word
1 kɔ̀tʊ́
2 ŋɡɔ̀r
3 mʊ̀tːà
4 ʔɛ́w
5 múì
6 dɔ̀kɔtʊ́
7 dɔ́ŋɡɔr
8 dɔ̀mʊ́tːà
9 dɔ̀mʔɛ́w
10 kɪ̀ː
11 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) kɔ̀tʊ́
12 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) ŋɡɔ̀r
13 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) mʊ̀tːà
14 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) ʔɛ́w
15 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) múì
16 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) dɔ̀kɔtʊ́
17 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) dɔ́ŋɡɔr
18 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) dɔ̀mʊ́tːà
19 kɪː̀ (dɔ̀ː) dɔ̀mʔɛ́w
20 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́
21 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː kɔ̀tʊ́
22 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː ŋɡɔ̀r
23 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː mʊ̀tːà
24 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː ʔɛ́w
25 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː múì
26 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː dɔ̀kɔtʊ́
27 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː dɔ́ŋɡɔr
28 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː dɔ̀mʊ́tːà
29 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː dɔ̀mʔɛ́w
30 mbàba kɔ̀tʊ́ dɔ̀ː kɪ̀ː
40 mbàba ŋɡɔ̀r
50 mbàba ŋɡɔ̀r dɔ̀ː kɪ̀ː
60 mbàba mʊ̀tːà
70 mbàba mʊ̀tːà dɔ̀ː kɪ̀ː
80 mbàba ʔɛ́w
90 mbàba ʔɛ́w dɔ̀ː kɪ̀ː
100 mbàla múì
200 mbàba múì dɔ̀ː múì
1000 mbuda kɔ̀tʊ́
2000 mbuda ŋɡɔ̀r

Scholarship

The first ethnologists to work with the Bongo language were John Petherick, who published Bongo word lists in his 1861 work, Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa; Theodor von Heuglin, who also published Bongo wordlists in Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil, &c. 1862-1864 in 1869; and Georg August Schweinfurth, who contributed sentences and vocabularies in his Linguistische Ergebnisse, Einer Reise Nach Centralafrika in 1873.[4] E. E. Evans-Pritchard published additional Bongo wordl ists in 1937.[5]

More recent scholarship has been done by Eileen Kilpatrick, who published a phonology of Bongo in 1985.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Bongo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bongo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Bongo at Numeral Systems of the World's Languages
  4. ↑ The Bongo. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Sudan Notes and Records (1929): 1-62.
  5. ↑ The non-Dinka peoples of the Amadi and Rumbek Districts. Evans-Pritchard, E. E.. Sudan Notes and Records (1937): 156-158
  6. ↑ Bongo Phonology. Eileen Kilpatrick. Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages 4 (1985): 1-62.

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