The Ebola River ( / i ˌ b oʊ l ə / or / ə ˈ b oʊ l ə / ), also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala , is the headstream of the Mongala River , a tributary of the Congo River , in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is roughly 250 kilometers (160 mi) in length.
4-679: The name Ebola is a French corruption of Legbala , its name in Ngbandi which means 'white water'. During the Belgian administration these names were interchangeable along with the French names Eau Blanche and rarely L'Ébola . In 1976, Ebola virus was first identified in Yambuku , 111 kilometers (69 mi) from the Ebola River, but the virologist Karl Johnson decided to name it after
8-664: Is a dialect continuum of the Ubangian family spoken by a half-million or so people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ngbandi proper) and in the Central African Republic (Yakoma and others). It is primarily spoken by the Ngbandi people , which included the dictator of what was then known as Zaire , Mobutu Sese Seko . Northern Ngbandi is the lexical source of the trade language Sango , which has as many native speakers as Ngbandi and which
12-733: Is used as a second language by millions more in the CAR. A variety of Ngbandi may have been spoken further east, in the DRC villages of Kazibati and Mongoba near Uganda, until the late 20th century, but this is uncertain. Yakoma , with a central position on the Ubangi River that divides the CAR from the DRC, has a high degree of intelligibility with all other varieties of Ngbandi, though as with any dialect continuum, it does not follow that more distant varieties are necessarily as intelligible with each other as they are with Yakoma. Gbayi or Kpatiri
16-523: The river so that the town would not be associated with the disease's stigma. Thus, the river is eponymous to the terms Ebola virus , Ebolavirus , and Ebola virus disease (usually referred to as simply "Ebola"). [REDACTED] Media related to Ebola River at Wikimedia Commons This article related to a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ngbandi language The Ngbandi language
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