Editing Lingala (section)

== Name ==
At first the language the European pioneers and their African troops had forged out of Bobangi was called "the river language", "the trade language", and other volatile names. Beginning in 1884, it was called "Bangala", due to its introduction in [[Bangala Station]]. After 1901, Catholic missionaries of [[CICM Missionaries|CICM]], also called the Congregation of Scheutists, proposed to rename the language "Lingala". It took some decades for this to be generally accepted both by colonials and the Congolese.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meeuwis |first1=Michael |title=A Grammatical Overview of Lingala |date=2020 |publisher=Lincom |location=München |isbn=9783969390047 |page=27}}</ref> The name ''Lingala'' first appears in writing in a 1901-2 publication by the [[CICM Missionaries|CICM]] missionary [[Égide de Boeck|Égide De Boeck]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meeuwis |first1=Michael |title=A grammatical overview of Lingala: Revised and extended edition |date=2020 |publisher=Lincom |location=München |isbn=978-3-96939-004-7 |page=26}}</ref> This name change was accepted in western and northwestern Congo, and in other countries where the language was spoken, but not in northeastern Congo, where the variety of the language spoken locally is still called ''[[Bangala language|Bangala]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edema |first1=A.B. |title=Dictionnaire bangala-français-lingala |date=1994 |publisher=ACCT |location=Paris}}</ref>