Aspects du Boloki de Monsembe. Le ngala de Stapleton

Abstract

Resume L'expose tente de fournir quelques elements du bolo2ki en se basant sur deux textes extraits de Mabanza ma Monsembe de Weeks (1894) recemment presentes par Vinck (2000). La langue des Bolo2ki a ete appelee par Stapleton (1903) ";nga2la";. Il se constate effectivement que le bolo2ki est plus proche du lingala, la langue commerciale du Fleuve, qu'en est le bobangi (Whitehead 1899) qu'on a souvent considere comme sa base. Il n'est pas ici question de faire rebondir la discussion sur l'origine du lingala, car celle-ci reste encore au niveau de la pure speculation tant qu'on a pas encore procede aux analyses comparees systematiques qui puissent mettre en evidence les analogies et les divergences caracteristiques entre le lingala et ses pretendues ";langues meres"; (Sesep 1982). Mots-Cles: bolo2ki,; Weeks; Stapleton; nga2la,; bobangi; lingala Summary: The article tempts to provide some elements of the Boloki language, based on two texts extracted from Mabanza ma Monsembe of Weeks (1894), presented by Vinck (2000). The language of the Boloki has been called ";ngala"; by Stapleton (1903). One can note effectively that the boloki language is closer to lingala, the commercial language of the Congo River, than to the bobangi (Whitehead 1899), which often has been considered as its basis. The article does not intend to rebound the discussion on the origin of lingala, because this remains pure speculation as long as systematic comparative analyses does not put in evidence the analogies and the characteristic divergences between the lingala and its supposed "; mother languages "; (Sesep 1982). (Annales Aequatoria: 2002 23: 285-328)