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Linguistic fieldwork in the Lower Congo Province (DRC):
summer 2012
From 4 August until 14 September 2012 a team of four UGent researchers carried out linguistic fieldwork on Kikongo varieties in the Lower Congo.
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Objectives
We took off for the DRC with the following objectives:• Collect lexical and grammatical data on poorly
known varieties of Kikongo, with a focus on the Eastern and Western extremities of the Lower Congo Province;
• Discover hitherto unknown varieties; • Gather information on the geographical
distribution of the Kikongo dialects.
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Types of data collected
For each of the varieties studied, we tried to gather as much data as possible: • Basic vocabulary (the Swadesh-100 list);• Vocabulary to check sound correspondences;• Culinary vocabulary;• Basic grammatical information by means of a
translation questionnaire with special attention to verbal derivation and tense/aspect;
• Information Structure by means of a dedicated questionnaire with special attention to focus;
• Text corpora (both oral and written).
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Results
We succeeded in achieving the following results:• Discovery of four Kikongo varieties which were
hitherto (almost) unknown in the scientific literature: Cizali, Cimbala, Cilinji, and Cizobe;
• Documentation of six more poorly documented or undocumented Kikongo varieties: Kimbata, Kimbeko, Kinkanu, Kimpangu, Ciwoyo, and Kisolongo;
• Collection of hitherto inaccessible text corporafor several other Kikongo varieties.
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Acknowledgments
• Wilfried Ntunda Nzeza (ISP Mbanza Ngungu) was of great help during our fieldwork on eastern Kikongo varieties in Ngidinga.
• Zephyrin Pinzi was a magnificent language assistant during our fieldwork in the western part of the Lower Congo Province (Boma and elsewhere).
• We also thank all the informants who were willing to work on their language with us.
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The four of us in Boma….
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…working until late at night!
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Location of the fieldwork
Eastern dialects- Kimbata- Kimbeko- Kinkanu- Kimpangu
7-21/8/2012,mainly fromNgidinga
Western dialects- Ciwoyo- Cizali- Kisolongo- Cimbala
24/8-7/9/2012,from Boma-Kanzi-Muanda
North-Western dialects- Cilinji- Cizobe
8-10/9/2012West of Tshela
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Corpus collectionin Mbanza-Ngungu
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Wilfried Ntunda Nzeza getting us to work on Kimpangu
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Zephyrin Pinzi transcribing a mass (various Kikongo dialects)
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Recording stories in Cilinji
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Mapping Cizobe
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In search of Kisolongo speakers
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Documenting pottery making in Nsangi Binsu
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Working on Kinkanu
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Working on Cimbala
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On the road …