Name
European missionaries called the language Bangala, after the Bangala people, or Lingala. The latter was intended to mean '(language) of the Bangala' or 'of the River' (that is, 'Riverine Language'. However, this was an error, as the proper Bangi form would have been Kingala. The name Lingala first appears in writing in a publication by the C.I.C.M. missionary Egide De Boeck (1903).
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