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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. [contradictory] [3]
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 ...
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 ... Democratic Republic of the Congo: 212 2 214 ... Cook Islands: 5 0 5
République démocratique du Congo Republíki ya Kongó Demokratíki Repubilika ya Kôngo ya Dimokalasi Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo: Kinshasa Kinsasa Kinsásá Kinshasa: French Kongo Lingala Swahili: Cook Islands [7] Avarua: Cook Islands Kūki 'Āirani: Avarua Avarua: English Cook Islands Māori: Costa Rica: San José: Costa Rica: San ...
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.
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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 ...