Book ID: 105038
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Muluwa, Koni
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                Noms et Usages de Plantes, Animaux et Champignons chez les Mbuun, Mpiin, Ngong, Nsong et Hungan en RD Congo. 2014. (Tervuren Series for African Language Documentation and Description). 168 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    The nsong, ngong, mpiin, mbuun and hungan are laguages spoken in  around the town of Kikwit in Bandundu province, RD Congo. As minority languages they are progrossively replaced by national official languages.
This book records the traditional knowledge on plants, animals and fungi (food, medicine, art, meteorological), knowledge which proved to be efficient and which could be exploited scientifically. Unfortunately this knowledge is vanishing quickly.