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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.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo [b] (DRC), also known as DR Congo, ... French is the official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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.
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.
Official language A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business. Regional language A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state.
Chad: French and Arabic (both official) [3] + more than 100 African languages. Democratic Republic of the Congo: French (official) + Lingala, Kongo, Swahili & Tshiluba (national languages) [4] + 238 other languages. Equatorial Guinea: Spanish, French and Portuguese are the official languages of the country. [5]
It is the national and co-official language of Madagascar, ... National language of Democratic Republic of the Congo: Tsonga: Niger–Congo: 5,000,000 [74]
Democratic Republic of the Congo; Djibouti (with Arabic) Equatorial Guinea ... Republic of Altay (official language; in localities with Kazakh population) [84]