Lingala
Bantu language spoken in western central Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Lingala language. For Lingala music, see Soukous. For other uses, see Lingala (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Ngala language.
Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: Lingála) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in Angola, the Central African Republic, Kenya and southern South Sudan. Lingala has 25–30 million native speakers and about 35 million second-language speakers, for an approximate total of 60–65 million speakers.
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Ngala | |
Lingála | |
Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo |
Region | Congo River |
Speakers | Native speakers: 20 million (2020)[1] L2 speakers: 20 million speakers (2020)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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African reference alphabet (Latin), Mandombe script | |
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ISO 639-1 | ln |
ISO 639-2 | lin |
ISO 639-3 | lin |
Glottolog | ling1269 |
C30B [2] | |
Linguasphere | 99-AUI-f |
Geographic distribution of Lingala speakers, showing regions of native speakers (dark green) and regions where Lingala is spoken by a minority. (light green) | |
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