Publications

Publication details [#11851]

Goyvaerts, Didier L. 1997. Power, Ethnicity, and the Remarkable Rise of Lingala in Bukavu, Eastern Zaire. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 128 : 25–43. 19 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language shift | language status | lingua franca

Language as a subject

Lingala

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

A sociolinguistic description of the use of Lingala in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire). It is shown how Lingala is increasingly used as the language of education, administration and business, potentially replacing French as a new, indigenous lingua franca.