Kongo

Bantu language spoken in Angola, Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa

Languagemacrolanguage modern language natural languageQ33702

Also known as Kikongo · kg · Kongo language

Speakers: 5,016,500
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1.Stated in Ethnologue
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Subclass of: Kongo-Yaka-Sira
Script: Latin script

Overview

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Kongo or Kikongo is a Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There are roughly seven million native speakers of Kongo in the above-named countries. An estimated five million more speakers use it as a second language.

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10 linked to Kongo in Wikidata

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57 statements · 32% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Native label: kikongo
Wikimedia language code: kg
Country: Republic of the Congo
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1.“ScriptSource - Congo”scriptsource.org/country/CGRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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1.“ScriptSource - Democratic Republic of the Congo”scriptsource.org/country/CDRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Angola
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1.“ScriptSource - Angola”scriptsource.org/country/AORetrieved 2023-08-21
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UNESCO language status: 1 safe
Ethnic group: Kongo people

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33 identifiers linking Kongo across the web's reference databases

-4.5000, 14.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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AIDB. (2026). Kongo (Q33702). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/kongo-Q33702