LOMBÔLE (BANTOU C60-70) Le dialecte des Loelé

Les presentes notes grammaticales concernent le parler des Loele, un dialecte mbole qui porte le numero 116 sur la liste des dialectes Mongo. Comme la plupart d’autres parlers mbole, le loele atteste des traits phonologiques et morphologiques d’un interet insoupconne du point de vue de la recherche historique : la regle de Meihnof, l’assimilation nasale partielle, la nasale epenthetique, la caducite du prefixe i- en classes 5 et 8 entrainant des realisations phonetiques particulieres, le prefixe li- plutot que bi- en classe 8, des regles tonales complexes, etc. Bref, un ensemble de phenomenes qui ne sont identifiables que dans des langues eloignees du domaine Mongo, en l’occurrence celles des Grands Lacs, tels que le luganda E15, le kikuyu E51, le kikamba E55. Mots-cles : Bantou central; Contact et evolution des langues; Mongo ;Dialectologie; Mbole; Bankutsu; Bakutu; Nkole. The present grammatical notes apply to the Loele language known as number 116 in the Mongo dialect list. Like most of the Mbole dialects, Loele has phonological and morphological characteristics with an unexpected interest from the point of view of the historical research: the rule of Meinhof, partial nasalization, epenthetic nasal, instability of the i- prefix in classes 5 and 8 generating particular phonetical effects, the li- prefix preferred to bi in class 8, complex tonality rules, etc. In brief, a complex of phenomena that are not better identifiable than in languages more remote from the Mongo region, like these of the Great Lakes, as there are Luganda E15, Kikuyu E51, Kikamba E55. Keywords: Central Bantu; Language contact; Mongo ;Dialectology; Mbole; Bankutsu; Bakutu, Nkole.