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	Tshiluba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tshiluba (Luba-Kasai) is one of the four official languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		This native language is of Niger-Congo origin and spoken by over 6,000,000 of the nearly 50,000,000 of the country formerly known as Zaire.
		There are more than 400 dialects spoken in this country, which is the third largest in Africa.
	www.flw.com /languages/tshiluba.htm (56 words)

	Tshiluba language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tshiluba belongs to the (A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent) Bantu branch of the (additional info and facts about Niger-Congo languages) Niger-Congo languages.
		Tshiluba is spoken by about 6.3 million people in the (additional info and facts about Kasaï Occidental) Kasaï Occidental and (additional info and facts about Kasaï Oriental) Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		List which countries have this language as an official language or other special status.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ts/tshiluba_language.htm (435 words)

	Translation Services Company - Language Translation Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		You probably don't speak Tshiluba yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
		To ensure our translators keep abreast of the language our Tshiluba translators live in-county and translate into their mother tongue.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and speak fluent Tshiluba perform our Tshiluba to English translation.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/tshiluba_translation.shtml (471 words)

	AllRefer.com - Zaire - Languages - Officially Recognized Languages \| Zaire Information Resource
		Four indigenous languages have also been recognized as having official status since the colonial era, namely Kikongo, Tshiluba, Lingala, and Kiswahili.
		All have been used at various times in official documents, in religious works, in school instruction, and in various published works.
		Of the four most widely used indigenous languages, two are identified with Zaire's two largest ethnic groups, namely, Tshiluba with the Luba-Kasai of south-central Zaire and Kikongo with the Kongo of southwestern Zaire.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/zaire/zaire56.html (1053 words)

	An experimental approach to developing music literacy in central Zaire
		The dominant ethnic group is the Bena Lulua, who speak the Tshiluba language.
		In time, the missionary effort grew to include over a hundred missionaries and the Bible was published in Tshiluba early in this century.
		It consisted entirely of western hymns translated into Tshiluba and notated in standard Western staff notation.
	www.sil.org /anthro/articles/zaire/culture.htm (763 words)

	TravelBlog \| Languages \| Tshiluba Information
		A: Tshiluba is spoken in: Congo, Democratic Republic of the
		The Language information on TravelBlog will continue to increase, we hope to have more detailed information on Tshiluba soon.
		But in the meantime, the chances are that the 101 Languages of the World software package may include Tshiluba.
	www.travelblog.org /World/tshiluba-language.html (228 words)

	NPR : Translating the Untranslatable
		Moore shares a few of his linguistic favorites from his new book In Other Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World with Renee Montagne.
		This word from the Tshiluba language of the Republic of Congo has topped a list drawn up with the help of one thousand translators as the most untranslatable word in the world.
		It describes a person who is ready to forgive any transgression a first time and then to tolerate it for a second time, but never for a third time.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4457805 (772 words)

	Christian Medical Institute of the Kasai Good Shepherd Hospital PAX ...
		Many patients, no interpreter for Tshiluba, and again, no students or staff with me to teach.
		With the reading of the Tshiluba Christmas scriptures, the first of many familiar Western carols (in French and Tshiluba), as well as roof-raising Tshiluba carols, rang out, filling the church and the bright star-lit night of Tshikaji.
		Not only did they sing, but they looked at each other while they sang with such joy, love and appreciation for each other, it was infectious.
	www.schrade9.org /sager.htm (647 words)

	The Most Untranslatable Word in the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A Word In The Bantu Language Of Tshiluba For
		Googly, Spam and gobbledegook have been voted among the most untranslatable words in the English language, in a worldwide poll of a thousand professional translators and interpreters.
		But the most untranslatable word in any language, reckon the translators, is ilunga, a word in the Bantu language of Tshiluba for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1160408/posts (1436 words)

	3quarksdaily: Judging what's most untranslatable
		The winner among foreign language words is "ilunga [a Tshiluba word for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time.
		"The thing that puzzles me, though, is where Zilinskiene [head of Today Translations] turned up 1,000 linguists who know Tshiluba vocabulary.
		I'm beginning to get the feeling that this survey might have been a class project in one of Zilinskiene's Problematics courses..."
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2004/08/judging_whats_m.html (162 words)

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