Bobangi

In the Western-Equatorial, Bantu languages spoken around the lower and lower-middle Congo River, for example, Kongo nsoki and Bobangi ncoki, conveyed the notion of "sin" or "transgression."

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Forest-Bantu languages, Bobangi and Mongo, and in Western-Savanna Ndonga.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Its etymology predates the proto-Savanna-Bantu period of the second millennium BCE, and is thus a proto-Ruvu retention. 134 It identified a functional plot of farmland in such forest languages as Bobangi and Mongo, as well as in the Western-Savanna Ndongo language.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

These meanings show a Christian influence in their translation, but prior to taking on that subtlety, the words 'earlier meaning in Kongo and Bobangi would have referenced acts involving transgressions against established cultural prohibitions.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008