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  2. Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    Four other languages, all of them Bantu based, have the status of national language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Francophone country, where, as of 2024, 55.393 million (50.69%) out of 109.276 million people speak French [ 2 ] and 74% report using French as a lingua franca .

  3. Category : Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    Pages in category "Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Languages of North America - Wikipedia

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    The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages in North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean islands) are English, Spanish, and to a lesser extent French, and especially in the Caribbean, creole languages lexified by them.

  5. Demographics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    In total, there are over 200 languages spoken in the DRC. French, the official language, is generally the language of instruction in schools. However, English is taught as a compulsory foreign language in secondary schools around the country. It is a required subject in the Faculty of Economics at major universities around the country, and ...

  6. Democratic Republic of the Congo–United States relations

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    When the DRC was known as Zaire, it had a strong alliance with the United States. This was in part because Zairian leader Mobutu Sese Seko was considered to be a strong anti-communist and anti-socialist, and the United States government saw Zaire as a useful stability buffer to prevent the spread of communism and socialism in Africa.

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  8. Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the DRC the beliefs take on a number of forms, but they have a number of things in common: A creator spirit is thought to be sovereign of the spirit world, but this god is rarely the direct cause of events. In many Congolese languages, the name of the creator god derives from the word father or maker. Some groups regard the creator ...

  9. Kongo language - Wikipedia

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    These are now parts of the DRC (Kongo Central and Bandundu), the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon. Kikongo is the base for the Creole language Kituba, also called Kikongo de l'État and Kikongo ya Leta (French and Kituba, respectively, for "Kikongo of the state administration" or "Kikongo of the State"). [4]