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The constitution says Kikongo is one of the national languages, but in fact it is a Kikongo-based creole, Kituba (Kikongo ya Leta "Kikongo of the government", Leta being derived from French l'État "the State") that is used in the constitution and by the administration in the provinces of Bas-Congo (which is inhabited by the Bakongo), Kwango, and Kwilu.
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 ...
Kongo was the language of the Kingdom of Kongo prior to the creation of Angola by the Portuguese Crown in 1575. The Berlin Conference (1884-1885) among major European powers divided the rest of the kingdom into three territories. These are now parts of the DRC (Kongo Central and Bandundu), the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon.
The Kongo languages are a clade of Bantu languages, ... Southern Kikongo: Hungu-Pombo, Koongo-Kituba (Congo Kituba, DRC Kituba, South-Central Koongo) West Kikongo
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 ...
Arabic is the official language, English is taught as a second language in schools starting from first grade, and in middle school you get to choose between French and Russian as a third language. Rojava : the constitution of the de facto autonomous region designates Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac as official languages.
Languages of the Congo may refer to: Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Languages of the Republic of the Congo This page was last edited on 29 ...
Pages in category "Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .