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Sociolinguistics; Congo; survey; zmx; Bomitaba; bvx; Dibole; axk; Yaka (Central African Republic); bui; Bongili; gya; Northwest Gbaya
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Language Use In The Epena District Of Northern Congo, William L. Gardner
Language Use In The Epena District Of Northern Congo, William L. Gardner
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This thesis, based on two language surveys conducted in 1988 and 1989, addresses the question “What language do you speak?” for the people of the district of Epena in the Likouala Region of the People’s Republic of the Congo. The goals of the study were to: 1) inventory all the languages and dialects spoken in the district; 2) clarify their relationships with each other and neighboring languages; 3) measure the degree of intelligibility between speakers of different language varieties, specifically among the Bomitaba people; 4) investigate in what situations the people use which languages; and 5) provide bases for making …