Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to a 2021 survey, French was the most spoken language in the country: a total of 74% of Congolese (79% of men, and 68% of women) reported using French as a language of communication. [9] Additionally, French has become a native language among the middle and upper class in cities like Kinshasa and Lubumbashi.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
A 2021 survey found that 74% of the population could speak French, making it the most widely spoken language in the country. [237] In Kinshasa, 67% of the population in 2014 could read and write French, and 68.5% could speak and understand it. [238] In 2024, there were around 12 million native French speakers in the country. [239]
This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code. Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used.
Kinshasa (/ k ɪ n ˈ ʃ ɑː s ə /; French:; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population of 17,032,322 in 2024. [6]
The five major languages in the DRC are French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca, or trade language), Swahili (more specifically Congo Swahili such as the Kingwana dialect), Kikongo ya leta or Kituba (a Kikongo-based creole language), and Tshiluba or Luba-Kasai. In total, there are over 200 languages spoken in the DRC.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd ... Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2 ... Canada: 96 99 ...
Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: Lingála) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree as a trade language or because of emigration in neighbouring Angola or Central African Republic.