¹Nico Buroko Mulume, ²Dr. Anashia Nancy Ong’onda

¹Department of Languages and Humanities School of Social Sciences, Mount Kenya University

²Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Machakos University, Kenya

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i10-13

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ABSTRACT

This study focused on the tense and aspect

INTRODUCTION

This paper focuses on Mashi Verb Phrase in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). DRC is one of the most countries with linguistic diversity. Makomo (2012) observes that 200 and 300 languages are spoken in DRC. The sociolinguistic environment of DRC is thus multilingual where French is minority dominant language which is spoken alongside the four official national languages (Maalu-Bungi et al, 2010; Makomo, 2012). DRC is one of the countries with four national languages: Kiswahili, Kikongo, Lingala and Tshiluba which were promoted by the colonial power as inter-ethnic communication languages and languages of the education and evangelization. However, a worrying trend about linguistic policy of the DRC is marked by the colonial ideology that promotes multilingualism without caring about locally spoken languages such as Mashi.

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