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Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesVol. 1:2 (1986) ► pp.205–223
The Source of Sango's 'BE'
The verb 'be' in Pidgin Sango is an innovation, for vernacular Sango has no copula. The development in Sango had important grammatical consequences. It is argued, with data both from Ngbandi and Kituba, that the most likely source of this verb is some form of Kikongo, which went through the process of pidginization in the nineteenth century.
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