- Bole, also
known as
Dibole or Babole, is a
Bantu language spoken in the
Likouala Department in the
Republic of Congo.
Speakers are
clustered in villages...
-
marks a
rough divide between the
Bomitaba linguistic area and that of the
Dibole language to the south.
Aminata Aboubakar Yacoub -
Congolese Olympic swimmer...
- bvu I/L Malay,
Bukit malais (Bukit) bvv I/E
Baniva bvw I/L Boga bvx I/L
Dibole bvy I/L
Baybayanon bvz I/L
Bauzi bwa I/L
Bwatoo bwb I/L Namosi-Naitasiri-Serua...
- Ambuun)
Bostoen and Koni
Muluwa 2014;
Boone 1973 C10 C101 bvx
Babole (
Dibole), Dzeke, Ebambe, Edzama, Kinami, Mossengue,
Mounda Gardner 1990; Leitch...
-
Bomitaba language.
Below Epena the
Babole people speak dialects of the
Dibole language. The
local people engage in
fishing and in
subsistence agriculture...
- C12b Bogongo, C13 Mbati, C14 Mbomotaba, C15 Bongili, C16 Lobala, [C101
Dibole, C102 Ngando, C103 Kota, C104 Yaka (Aka), C105
Mbenga (?=Aka), C141 Enyele...
- of C.30:
Ngondi (C.10): Aka (Yaka, Benzele) –
Ngando (incl. Kota), Bole (
Dibole), Ngondi,
Pande (incl. Gongo), Mbati, Bomitaba–Enyele–Bondongo–Mbonzo, Bongili...
-
South of
Epena the
people identify as
ethnically Bomitaba but
speak the
Dibole language, as the term 'Bomitaba'
likely arose only
during the
colonial period...
