Get to know Tshiluba better with 3 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like luba or bantu.
Tshiluba in a sentence
Tshiluba meaning
A Bantu language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Using Tshiluba
- The main meaning on this page is: A Bantu language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Useful related words include: luba, bantu, bantoid language.
Context around Tshiluba
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tshiluba
- In this selection, "tshiluba" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lingala and language stand out and add context to how "tshiluba" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from a tshiluba language term and such as tshiluba and kiluba. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tshiluba" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tshiluba
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is derived from a Tshiluba language term kivili-chimpenze, with a meaning of "mockman" or possibly just "ape". (19 words)
In a few cases prefixes are used to distinguish languages with the same root in their name, such as Tshiluba and Kiluba (both Luba), Umbundu and Kimbundu (both Mbundu). (29 words)
Given these limits, French might have lost its place to another of the leading languages of Zaïre – Lingala, Tshiluba, or Swahili – except that teaching of these languages also suffered from limitations on its growth. (34 words)
Given these limits, French might have lost its place to another of the leading languages of Zaïre – Lingala, Tshiluba, or Swahili – except that teaching of these languages also suffered from limitations on its growth. (34 words)
In a few cases prefixes are used to distinguish languages with the same root in their name, such as Tshiluba and Kiluba (both Luba), Umbundu and Kimbundu (both Mbundu). (29 words)
It is derived from a Tshiluba language term kivili-chimpenze, with a meaning of "mockman" or possibly just "ape". (19 words)
Example sentences (3)
Given these limits, French might have lost its place to another of the leading languages of Zaïre – Lingala, Tshiluba, or Swahili – except that teaching of these languages also suffered from limitations on its growth.
In a few cases prefixes are used to distinguish languages with the same root in their name, such as Tshiluba and Kiluba (both Luba), Umbundu and Kimbundu (both Mbundu).
It is derived from a Tshiluba language term kivili-chimpenze, with a meaning of "mockman" or possibly just "ape".