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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]
This language is used by 50.35% of the Congolese population who live along the Congo-Océan railway line which connects Brazzaville to Pointe-Noire in the south of the country. Lingala, the river language, is the language of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, and is spoken mainly in the north and east of the country. This is the language which has ...
English: Map of vehicular national languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Euskara: ... Map of major languages of the DR Congo <br/> 2005, ...
[23] [24] [25] The river was known as Zaire during the 16th and 17th centuries; Congo seems to have replaced Zaire gradually in English usage during the 18th century, and Congo is the preferred English name in 19th-century literature, although references to Zaire as the name used by the natives (i.e., derived from Portuguese usage) remained ...
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.
Mbo language (Congo) Mbole language; Mbuun language; Mfinu language; Mituku language; Mongo language; Mono language (Congo) Monzombo language; Moru–Madi languages;
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Congo: 62 2 64 0.90 3,690,660 60,503 14,400
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.