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Mabale Stories
With a Few Notes On Mabale Grammar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The following stories are the first two of a Mabale series. Mabale is a Bantu dialect spoken by the Ba–mabale (sing. Wa–mabale; both abbreviations of moto wa Mabale, a Mabale-man and batu ba Mabale, the Mabale people).
The Bamabale live on the right bank of the Congo River, up but especially down Nouvelle–Anvers.1 They also occupy the immediate hinterland and are even found in a few places on the left bank, opposite the same central town.
The Bamabale belong to the group of tribes we usually call Bangala. Amongst them are the Iboko, who also live at Nouvelle–Anvers, and whose ancestor Mata-Boiki (i.e. grandson of Boikr) has become famous, since his encounter with Stanley; further, the Mbenga, Motembo, Losengo and Boloki (between N.A. and the mouth of the Mongala); the Ndobo and Mbundzi (down N.A.), all on the right bank. The BaFәtә (near Lisala) and the εlεku (at Lolanga and near Coquilhatville); the Libinza, Ewaku, and Likoka (in the hinterland, on the Ngiri).
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1929 , pp. 359 - 378
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1929
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page 359 note 1 The inland name of N.A. is Mankanza. In fact, N.A. arose from the junction of four small villages.
page 359 note 2 Which is easy to be understood, owing to the close connection of m and b, and the fact that ba was a known prefix to names of tribes. The correct form would have been Bamangala.
page 374 note 1 We have adopted in this paper the alphabet of the International Phonetic Association.
page 375 note 1 According to Meinhof's order.