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lingala
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lingua bantu parlata nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo
Lingala is a Bantu language spoken primarily in the Congo region, with about 20 million native speakers and another 20 million who speak it as a second language, totaling roughly 40 million speakers worldwide. It serves as an important means of communication in major cities like Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and is also used as a trade language in neighboring countries, with significant communities of Lingala speakers among Congolese diaspora populations in places like Belgium and France.
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Key facts
- Language.name
- Lingala
- Language.altname
- Ngala
- Language.nativename
- Lingála
- Language.states
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
- Language.region
- Congo River
- Language.speakers
- L1: million
- Language.date
- 2021
- Language.ref
- e27
- Language.speakers2
- L2: million (2021)
- Language.speakers_label
- Speakers
- Language.familycolor
- Niger-Congo
- Language.fam2
- Atlantic–Congo
- Language.fam3
- Benue–Congo
- Language.fam4
- Southern Bantoid
- Language.fam5
- Bantu (Zone C)
- Language.fam6
- Bangi–Ntomba (C.30)
- Language.fam7
- Bangi–Moi
- Language.fam8
- Bangi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Bangi–Ntomba
- Image
- Lingala-pn.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lingala language
- Wikimedia language code
- ln
- native label
- lingála
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 20000000
- Commons category
- Lingala language
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- writing system
- Latin script
- indigenous to
- Brazzaville
- exact match
- afbo.info/languages/126
- category for films in this language
- Category:Lingala-language films
- P10369
- Jimmy Wales
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/lingala
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Article · Italiano
La lingua lingala o mangala è una lingua bantu parlata nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo. Al 2022, è parlata da 40,3 milioni di parlanti totali.
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