Tshiluba seems to be using the former orthography.
PrintTshiluba seems to be using the former orthography.
"Cilubà" seems to be the new correct spelling for the autonym, "Tshiluba" being the old spelling.
These are the sources we used in French Wikipedia, but I am not sure about the quality of Kambaja 2016, as it uses an old version of the Wikipedia article full of inaccuracies and an erroneous map as a source, and I do not have access to Maalu-Bungi 2011:
Kambaja 2016, p.298:
Musampa Emmanuel Kambaja, « Textes de lecture et efficacité pédagogique dans une classe bilingue cilubà-français. Enquête menée à Mbuji-Mayi, RDC », in Bruno Maurer, Les approches bi-plurilingues d’enseignement-apprentissage: autour du programme Écoles et langues nationales en Afrique (ELAN-Afrique): Actes du colloque du 26-27 mars 2015, Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, Éditions des archives contemporaines (EAC), coll. « Plid », 2016 (ISBN 9782813001955, DOI 10.17184/eac.9782813001955)
https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_E596E78A1AD8.P001/REF
Maalu-Bungi 2011, p. 323:
Crispin Maalu-Bungi, « Quand la pratique lexicographique se modernise en RD Congo. Note sur Nkòngamyakù Cilubà–Mfwàlànsa, dictionnaire bilingue de NgoSemzara Kabuta », Lexikos, n° 21, 2011, pages 320-336
We will update information on autonyms for Luba-Lulua [lua] in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be included in the next edition of the Ethnologue.
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Dear Olivier,
Thank you for this information on the current spelling of the autonym for Luba-Kasai (Luba-Lulua) [lua] in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Best regards,
Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
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