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Other languages are mainly Bantu languages, and the two national languages in the country are Kituba and Lingala, [1] followed by Kongo languages, Téké languages, and more than forty other languages, including languages spoken by Pygmies, which are not Bantu languages. Republic of Congo is a Francophone country, and in 2024, French is spoken ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a multilingual country where an estimated total of 242 languages are spoken. Ethnologue lists 215 living languages. [1] The official language, since the colonial period, is French, one of the languages of Belgium.
Democratic Republic of the Congo singers by language (3 C) K. Kongo language (1 C, 10 P) L. ... Pages in category "Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
The Republic of the Congo, [a] also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, ... Ethnologue recognizes 62 spoken languages in the country. [79]
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.
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 category contains articles about languages spoken in The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo in the above-named countries.