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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. [3]
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 ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Congo: 62 2 64 0.90 3,690,660 60,503 14,400
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It has official status as a national language in DR Congo, Tanzania and Kenya, and symbolic official status (understood but not widely spoken) in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. It is the first language of education in Tanzania and in much of eastern Congo. It is also the auxiliary language to be in the proposed East African Federation. [citation ...
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.
English: Clickable map of the Atlantic–Congo languages within the Niger–Congo language family. Includes all Niger–Congo languages except for Mande , Ijoid , Dogon and part of Kordofanian . Date
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 ...