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Lingala
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For other uses, see Lingala (disambiguation).
| Lingala Lingála | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo | |
| Region: | Central and Eastern Africa | |
| Total speakers: | 2 million native speakers, 10 million with second-language speakers | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Narrow Bantu Northwest C Bangi-Ntomba Lingala | |
| Writing system: | African reference alphabet (Latin alphabet), Mandombe | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Republic of the Congo | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | ln | |
| ISO 639-2: | lin | |
| ISO 639-3: | lin | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Lingala is 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. It has over 10 million speakers. It is classed C.36D under the Guthrie system for classifying Bantu languages and C.40 under the SIL system.