. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 53S voice on the penultimate syllable, and lowering it again on the last. It is almost a chant, and expressed in musical notation would appear thus : â Ka 111 k^ ke Their pronunci
. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 53S voice on the penultimate syllable, and lowering it again on the last. It is almost a chant, and expressed in musical notation would appear thus : â Ka 111 k^ ke Their pronunciation is singularly staccato, every syllable being distinctly and separately uttered in a voice which is nearly always low and melodious. Ihe vowel sounds are broad and simpleâa, e, i, a, 6, \i, and ii (pronounced in vulgar English spelling ah, ay, ee, oh, aw, 00: ii is the French u). The Dwarfs are singularl}' quick at picking up languages. Those that stayed witli me at Entebbe in 1900 arrived in January unable to speak any tongue but their own Mbuba dialect. When they left Uganda to return to the Congo Forest in May, they could all prattle in Kiswahili and in Luganda, and we were able thus to converse witli one another. A little Dwarf woman who had resided for some six years at Kampala amongst the Swahili porters spoke jDerfect Kiswahili with an absolute grammatical correctness. Have the Pygmies any aboriginal tongue of their own ? No clear sign of it has yet appeared. Travellers who have written down the language spoken by the forest Pygmies between Euwen- zori and the Cameroons, the Nyam- Nyam country and the Kasai, have only succeeded in showing that the Dwarfs spoke the language of their nearest neighbours among the big agricultural' Negroes. The language of Schweinfurth's Akka turned out to be only Mafibettu; Stanley's, Wissmann's, Wolf's, Francois's, Kund's Pygmies all talked the Bantu dialect, debased or archaic, of the Bantu Negroes- among whom they dwelt. There rem
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