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FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA [3 records]

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Record 1 2010-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geographical Names
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Occasionally shortened to Equatorial Africa. Former federation of French possessions, west central Africa.

Key term(s)
  • Equatorial Africa

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms géographiques
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Gouvernement général qui de 1910 à 1958, groupa en une fédération les quatre territoires français du Tchad au nord, de l'Oubangui-Chari au centre, du Moyen-Congo et du Gabon au sud.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Bantu language spoken by the Mpongwe, a people living in the southern part of French Equatorial Africa just north of the equator and distributed chiefly about the estuary of the Gabon river.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue bantoue parlée par les Mpongwes, peuple vivant dans la partie sud de l'Afrique équatoriale française, au nord de l'équateur et dispersé le long de l'estuaire du Gabon.

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A branch of the Niger-Congo language family including Ngbaka, Sango and Zande, spoken from Cameroon eastward across French Equatorial Africa and northern Zaire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Groupe de langues de la famille nigéro-congolaise, parlées dans l'est du Nigéria, au nord du Cameroun, en République centrafricaine et au nord du Zaïre.

Spanish

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