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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.
Map of the area where Kongo and Kituba as the lingua franca are spoken. The Kongo languages are a clade of Bantu languages , coded Zone H.10 in Guthrie's classification, that are spoken by the Bakongo :
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 ...
United States or America Estados Unidos États-Unis (multiple names) ‘Amelika Hui Pū ‘ia: Washington, D.C., Washington, or D.C. Washington D.C. Washington, D.C. (multiple names) Wakinekona/Wasinetona: English Spanish Cajun French Indigenous Hawaiian: United States Virgin Islands [1] Charlotte Amalie: United States Virgin Islands: Charlotte ...
Map of the area where Kongo and Kituba as the lingua franca are spoken. NB: [53] [54] [55] 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 language of the Kongo people is called Kikongo (Guthrie: Bantu Zone H.10).
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".