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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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