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Lingala language


Name	Lingala
Nativename	Lingála
Familycolor	Niger-Congo
States	Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo
Region	Central and Eastern Africa
Speakers	ca. 2 million native speakers, between 8 and 30 million second-language speakers
Fam2	Atlantic � Congo
Fam3	Benue � Congo
Fam4	Bantoid
Fam5	Bantu (Zone C)
Fam6	Bangi � Ntomba (C.30)
Fam7	Losengo
Dia1	Bangala
Nation	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
Iso1	ln\|iso2=lin\|iso3=lin
Lingua	99-AUI-f
Script	African reference alphabet (Latin alphabet), Mandombe
Mapcaption	Geographic distribution of Lingala speakers, showing regions of native speakers (dark green) and other regions of use
Notice	IPA

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:"Ngala language" redirects here. For Ba-Ngala, see Bangala language.Lingala, or Ngala, 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 classified C.36D under the Guthrie system for classifying Bantu languages and C.40 under the SIL system.

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