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Colors – Learn the Lingala Language


I’ve always found the words for Lingala colours to be particularly hard to remember. And in my experience Kinois who use the Lingala words for colours tend to be pretty orthodox in their approach: no shortcuts – no ‘pondu’ or ‘mwindu’ on their own. Nope, it has to the whole langi ya mayi ya pondu or langi ya mwindu. Go figure.


These are the only ones that I’ve been able to document so far, and you’ll most likely be able to find others if you try hard enough. Personally, like a lot of Kinois, I tend to revert to French colour words.


  • ba langi – the colours
  • langi ya mayi ya pondu – green
  • langi ya motane – red
  • langi ya mwindu – black
  • langi ya pembe – white


Source

https://lobalingala.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/23042014-loba-lingala.pdf

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