Editing Lingala (section)

== Bobangi-Lingala relationship ==
Linguistically, Lingala is a dialect or variant of Bobangi, a popular or commercial Bobangi, that is, a Bobangi lingua franca spoken by non-native speakers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bwantsa-Kafungu |first=Pierre |title=Esquisse grammaticale de lingala |publisher=Université de Louvanium. |year=1970 |location=Kinshasa |pages=6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mimpongo |first=Mpoke |date=May 2024 |title=L'origine et de la signification du glossonyme lingala |url=https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008154 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://lingbuzz.net/ |archive-date=May 4, 2024 |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=[[lingbuzz.net]]}}</ref> Lingala has also been referred to by the following names: "bad Bobangi",<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marker |first=J.H. |date=1929 |title=A Bable, a book and a brickbat. |journal=Congo Mission News |volume=67 |pages=16–17}}</ref> "Sabir of Bobangi",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bruel |first=Georges |title=La France Equatoriale Africaine: le pays, les habitants, la colonisation, les pouvoirs publics |publisher=Larose. |year=1935 |location=Paris |pages=165}}</ref> "deformed and mixed Bobangi",<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hulstaert |first=Gustaaf |date=1940 |title=Lingala |journal=Aequatoria |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=39}}</ref> "Bobangi of treaties",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hulstaert |first=Gustaaf |title=Carte linguistique du Congo belge |publisher=Institut Royal Colonial Belge - Koninklijk Belgisch Koloniaal Instituut. |year=1950 |location=Brussels}}</ref> "patois of Bobangi and Kilolo<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stapleton |first=Walter H. |date=1892 |title=In quest of a new station |journal=Missionary Herald |volume=1 |pages=226}}</ref>", and "the new language of the Bobangi".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ndaywel, è Nziem |first=Isidore |title=L'histoire du Zaïre : De l'héritage ancien à l'âge contemporain. |publisher=Duculot |year=1997 |location=Louvain-la-Neuve |language=fr}}</ref>