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momí comes from the old French ma mie ("my dear"), and can sound like it means "grandmother", but means "girlfriend" two panes" to display the Lingala at the top and the French or the English or the Swahili version at the bottom
two panes" to display the Lingala at the top and the French or English or Swahili version at the bottom
Lingala is part of the Bantu language family. Lingala Words and Phrases - Greeting and Leave-taking
In an effort to make languages more accessible to non-native speakers and to help other students access the resources they need, Toby has chosen to share his knowledge through easy-to-follow and affordable courses on Udemy. Sorry if you don’t speak Russian. Another good English-language book for intermediate-level learners is Masomo ya Kisasa: Contemporary Readings in Swahili.)
Phrases in Bantu languages
Lingala is more a spoken than a written language, and has several different writing systems, most of them ad hoc. As literacy in Lingala tends to be low, its popular orthography is very flexible and varies among the two republics. Some orthographies are heavily influenced by French; influences include a double S, ss, to transcribe [s] (in the Republic of the Congo); ou for [u] (in the Republic of the Congo); i with trema, aï, to transcribe [áí] or [aí]; e with acute accent, é, to transcribe [e]; e to transcribe [ɛ], o with acute accent, ó, to transcribe [ɔ] or sometimes [o] in opposition to o transcribing [o] or [ɔ]; i or y can both transcribe [j]. The allophones are also found as alternating forms in the popular orthography; sango is an alternative to nsango (information or news); nyonso, nyoso, nionso, nioso (every) are all transcriptions of nyɔ́nsɔ. bato bakúmisa Nkómbó ya Yɔ́ ( CL2.people CL2.praise name of You) (Let) people praise Your name (a sentence from the Lord's Prayer) Most speakers of Swahili speak it as a second language (it has 19 million native speakers vs. 91 million non-native speakers, per Ethnologue), and it’s been widely used as a trade language in East Africa for centuries. Sāḥil is “coast” in Arabic, and sawāḥil is the plural of that (Arabic plurals are funny), so S awāḥiliyya, i.e. Swahili, is “the language of the coasts” of East Africa, which has been tied to Arabia and India via the monsoon trade (and later the British Empire) for millenia. Zanzibar, whose inhabitants are mostly native speakers of Swahili, was (at least technically) ruled by the Sultan of Oman until 1964. Spoken Lingala (called lingala parlé in French) is the variety mostly used in Lingalaphones' day-to-day lives. It has a full morphological noun prefix system, but the agreement system in the noun phrase is laxer than the literary variety's. There is a five-vowel system and no vowel harmony. Spoken Lingala is largely used in informal functions, and the majority of Lingala songs use spoken Lingala. Modern spoken Lingala is influenced by French; French verbs, for example, may be "lingalized", adding Lingala inflection prefixes and suffixes: "acomprenaki te" or "acomprendraki te" ("he did not understand", using the French word comprendre) instead of classic Lingala "asímbaki ntína te" (literally: "s/he grasped/held the root/cause not"). These French influences are more prevalent in Kinshasa and indicate an erosion of the language as education in French becomes accessible to more of the population. There are pronunciation differences between "Catholic Lingala" and "Protestant Lingala", for example nzala/njala ("hunger"). The phrase “boma ye” literally means “kill him” and has since made its way into various other corners of pop culture. But let’s take a look at the grammar here for a second: “ ye” represents the direct object “ him,” and while putting it after the verb seems totally normal to English speakers, it is not very typical for a Bantu language. For example “kill him” in would be ku mw ua in Swahili and m bulale in Xhosa — in both cases, the m-like prefix/infix is the part that represents “him.”
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