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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. [contradictory] [3]
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 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... Democratic Republic of the Congo: 212 2 214 ... Cook Islands: 5 0 5
République démocratique du Congo Republíki ya Kongó Demokratíki Repubilika ya Kôngo ya Dimokalasi Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo: Kinshasa Kinsasa Kinsásá Kinshasa: French Kongo Lingala Swahili: Cook Islands [7] Avarua: Cook Islands Kūki 'Āirani: Avarua Avarua: English Cook Islands Māori: Costa Rica: San José: Costa Rica: San ...
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 ...
The commonly used list of 13 languages can be derived for example from the languages in which the regional public Radio and Television company broadcasts programmes: [218] Since 2017, The Atlas of multilingualism of Dagestan has become available online. [219] Ingushetia – Russian and Ingush are co-official [220]
Mordovia (state language; with Moksha and Russian) [81] Even: Sakha (local official language; in localities with Even population) [79] Evenki: Sakha (local official language; in localities with Evenki population) [79] Faroese: Faroe Islands (with Danish) Finnish: Karelia (authorized language; with Karelian and Veps) [82] French: parts of Canada
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.