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Pagibete

A language of Democratic Republic of the Congo

ISO 639-3: pae

Population	28,000 (2000 SIL). 6,000 Momveda, 4,500 Mongbapele.
Region	Equateur Province, Businga, Yakoma, and Bumba territories; Mongbapele along road south of Businga; Momveda around Ngakpo on Dua River north side, across from Gumba; Yakoma Territory, Butu. Ndundusana in north Bumba Territory, south of Butu and at Ndundu-Sana.
Language map	Northern Democratic Republic of Congo
Alternate names	Apagibete, Apagibeti, Apakabeti, Apakibeti, Pagabete
Dialects	Momveda, Mongbapele, Ndundusana (Gezon, Egezon, Egezo, Egejo). Lexical similarity: of the Ndundusana dialect 90% with the Momveda and Mongbapele dialects. Momveda and Mongbapele have 80% lexical similarity with Bwa [bww], the Ndundusana dialect has 85%. Dialects have 60%–75% with Kango [kzy], 60%–65% with Ngelima [agh], 55%–60% with Lika [lik], 46% with Komo [kmw], 40%–45% with Bali [bcp], 35%–40% with Ngombe [ngc] and Budza [bja], 30% with Lingala [lin].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Northwest, C, Ngombe (C.50)
Language use	Vigorous in most families. 20% of Pagibete men marry speakers of other languages, and those women are pressured to learn it. Children of women who marry men from other languages speak it when visiting Pagibete villages. All domains. Some Ebale speakers use Pagibete for trading. Positive attitude. Most also use Lingala. About 30% intermarried with Ngombe or Ngbandi [ngb] and understand or speak those languages. About 5% have some secondary education with varying proficiency in French.
Language development	400 can read it, 50 can write it.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Agriculturalists (women); hunters (men). Christian, traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOONE, Douglas W.; OLSON, Kenneth S., authors. 1995. "Bua bloc survey report."

BOONE, Douglas W.; OLSON, Kenneth S., authors. 2004. "Bwa bloc survey report."  

REEDER, JeDene, author. 1998. Pagibete, a Northern Bantu Borderlands language: a grammatical sketch.

REEDER, JeDene, author. 2012. Pagibete Orthography Test Results.

WIT, Gert de, editor. 1995. Compendium of survey reports volume 3: other Bantu languages.