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Name: Koongo
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Kongo; Kikongo; Congo; Kikoongo; Cabinda
Spoken in: Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Number of speakers: 3,000,000 in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Total population does not include upwards of 5,000,000 additional L2 speakers. Population total all countries: 5,000,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: kng
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Kongo (H.10) (koon)
Child Dialects: Central Kongo (kng-cen) South Congo; South Kongo (kng-sou) East Kongo (kng-eas) Mboka (kng-mbo) West Kongo; Fiote; Fioti (kng-wes) Ndingi (kng-ndi) South East Kongo; Southeast Kongo (kng-soe) Bwende; Buende (kng-bwe) Nzamba; Dzamba (kng-nza)

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