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Kongo was the earliest Bantu language to be written in Latin characters. Portuguese created a dictionary in Kongo, the first of any Bantu language. A catechism was produced under the authority of Diogo Gomes, who was born in 1557 in Kongo to Portuguese parents and became a Jesuit priest. No version of that survives today.
The Kongo languages are a clade of Bantu ... 2019), [1] [2] [3] classifies two dozen languages of the Kongo language cluster as follows: Kikongo language cluster ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo currently has the largest population of any country with French as its official language. [8] 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]
The Kongo language is divided into many dialects which are sufficiently diverse that people from distant dialects, such as speakers of Kivili dialect (on the northern coast) and speakers of Kisansolo (the central dialect) would have trouble understanding each other.
The official language of the Republic of Congo is French.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.
Ibinda is Western Kongo (Guthrie: H16d) as it is spoken in Cabinda. [2] It is a combination of several dialects of the Kongo language (Kikongo) spoken by small ethnic groups in Cabinda. Among the principal ones are Iwóyo, Ikuákongo (Kakongo), Ikóchi, Ilínji (Ilinge), Kiyómbe (Quiombe), Kisúndi and Ivili [ 3 ] although some are sometimes ...
Dialect map of Kikongo and Kituba. NB: [13] [14] [15] Kisikongo (also called Kisansala by some authors) is the Kikongo spoken in Mbanza Kongo. Kisikongo is not the protolanguage of the Kongo language cluster. The majority of Kituba speakers live in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kongo language (1 C, 10 P) L. Lingala language (4 C, 6 P) S. Swahili language (7 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo"