Douville, Jean-Baptiste 1832

Douville, Jean-Baptiste. 1832. Voyage au Congo et dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique équinoxiale: fait dans les années 1828, 1829 et 1830. Avec une atlas edn. Paris: J. Renouard. (3 vols).

@book{48340,
  address    = {Paris},
  author     = {Douville, Jean-Baptiste},
  edition    = {Avec une atlas},
  note       = {3 vols},
  publisher  = {J. Renouard},
  title      = {Voyage au Congo et dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique équinoxiale: fait dans les années 1828, 1829 et 1830},
  year       = {1832},
  inlg       = {French [fra]},
  jfmnote    = {Contains a 'Français-Mogialoua-Abunda-Congo' vocabulary. 'Mogialoua' refers to Ndongo H21a (Doke 1959:6). 'Abunda' seemingly refers to Mbunda K15 while 'Congo' is Kikongo H16a (cfr Johnton 1919:802). 'Although his records of Bantu languages are very jumbled and full of inaccuracies, still they are not as apocryphal as they were afterwards esteemed. Douville not only mentions some of the principal language groups in Añgõla and the western Congo, but realizes through Portuguese information the importance of the Luba family beyond' (Johnston 1919:4). According to Latham (1847:190f), 'Douville's voyage to Congo is a literary imposture, being concocted at Brazil. Nevertheless, his three vocabularies represent Congo languages ... Three other vocabularies, however, following the Congo ones, and named Ho, Bomba and Salo, are, I think, like the rest of the work - fictions. They are more like French or Latin than any language in Africa. Possibly they were, in some cases, excogitated by disguising French and Latin roots.' Douville's vocabularies are reproduced in full by Latham (1847:191.) There's a recent publication/reprint titled 'Viajes a Buenos Aires, 1826 y 1831', published 1984 by Emecé Editores at Bueno Aires (ISBN-10 950-04-0391-9), which may or may not include the contents of Douville's 'Voyage au Congo'.},
  keywords   = {;caf;saf;cng;zmb;drc;ang;amr;trv;lng;lxl;bnt;h.21a;k.15;h.16a;},
  lgcode     = {Koongo [kng], Mbunda [mck], Kimbundu [kmb] (autotranslated from Maho's coding system)},
  macro_area = {Africa},
  src        = {eballiso2009}
}

Languages

Name in source Glottolog languoid
Koongo
Mbunda
Kimbundu (autotranslated from Maho's coding system)]