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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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.
^ abLingala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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...
them Bantu based, have the status of national language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. 51% of the total population is francophone and 74%...
September 2014). "Protection wall for Koti Lingala temple". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 September 2014. "Koti Lingala on the verge of Submergence". The Hindu...
ordinary struggles and successes. Singers occasionally sing and croon in Lingala, Kikongo, French and Swahili and bands often consist of a primary vocalist...
Senegal, the former having four "national" languages – Ciluba, Kikongo, Lingala, and Swahili – which are in a permanent opposition to French. Code-switching...
of which four have the status of national languages: Kituba (Kikongo), Lingala, Tshiluba, and Swahili. Although some limited number of people speak these...
Kinshasa (/kɪnˈʃɑːsə/; French: [kinʃasa]; Lingala: Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville before June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the...
Bangala language, a dialect of Lingala that is spoken in Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lingala language itself Bangala Dam,...
languages, and the two national languages in the country are Kituba and Lingala, followed by Kongo languages, Téké languages, and more than forty other...
speakers. It is spoken to the east and northeast of the area where Lingala is spoken. In Lingala, Bangala translates to "People of Mongala". This means people...
Kyrgyz 2016 no no Lao 2012 yes no Latin 2010 no yes Latvian 2008 yes yes Lingala 2022 no no Lithuanian 2008 yes yes Luganda 2022 no no Luxembourgish 2016...
orthographies of many Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan languages, such as Ewe, Akan, Lingala, Dinka and Maasai, for the vowel [ɛ] or [e̙], and is included in the African...
Hill, "The Book of Negroes", HarperCollins, Toronto, 2007, 44, 45 p. ISBN 978-1-55468-156-3 dic.lingala.com : dictionnaire de lingala en ligne [1] v t e...
kikongo en voie de disparition, le lingala gagne progressivement du terrain [Enquête]". L'Opinion Info (in French). Le lingala est fortement utilisé dans les...
Samithi). In the general elections of 2018. he supported the M.L.A. candidate Lingala Kamalraju on behalf of the TRS. In 2023, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy was suspended...
was one of the few African colonies in which local languages (Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili) were taught at primary school. Even so, language...
Jula (western West Africa), Fulfulde (West Africa), Hausa (West Africa), Lingala (Congo), Swahili (Southeast Africa), Somali (Horn of Africa) and Arabic...
The Yamakasi (Lingala: ya makási) are the original group of l'art du deplacement (parkour) practitioners from Lisses, France. The nine original members...
Bangala"), an association formed in the 1950s to represent the interests of Lingala speakers in large cities. It helped Mobutu that his ethnic affiliation...
franca of the East African Community. Other major Bantu languages include Lingala with more than 20 million speakers (Congo, DRC), Zulu with 12 million speakers...
also known in Cameroon as bobolo and in the Congo River basin language of Lingala as kwanga, is a starchy, fermented-cassava product that is a staple food...
was raised in Woolwich, southeast London. He can speak fluent French and Lingala. He played the role of Thomas, a Congolese immigrant to England, in series...
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