Lingala

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Lingala

A Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic.

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But if Lingala was the spoken language of Kinshasa, it made little progress as a written language. Source: Internet

Officials said the boat was headed to Kinshasa and the accident happened near the village of Lingala, downstream the Kasai River — a tributary of the Congo River — near the city of Kwamouth. Source: Internet

Given these limits, French might have lost its place to another of the leading languages of Zaïre – Lingala, Tshiluba, or Swahili – except that teaching of these languages also suffered from limitations on its growth. Source: Internet

It is also the second-largest French-speaking city in the world, according to Paris (even though only a small percentage of Kinois speak French correctly), although Lingala is widely used as a spoken language. Source: Internet

Lingala is influential in the sparsely inhabited northern half of the country. Source: Internet

Lingala was the language of music, of presidential addresses, of daily life in government and in Kinshasa. Source: Internet

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