Kituba (Kituba: Kituba, Kituba: Kikongo ya leta) is a widely used lingua franca in Central Africa. It is a creole language based on Kikongo, a Bantu language...
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is the base for the Creole language Kituba, also called Kikongo de l'État and Kikongo ya Leta (French and Kituba, respectively, for "Kikongo of the state...
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language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. 51% of the total population is francophone and 74% report using French as a lingua franca. When the...
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Belgian colonists enlisted West African labor to help build a local railroad, Kituba is used in the southern half of the Republic of the Congo and the Kwilu...
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Bantu languages (section Lingua franca)
million; 7 million with L2 speakers) Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba) (6.5 million) Kituba (4.5 million), a Bantu creole Kongo (Kikongo) (3.5 million) Luba-Katanga...
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Kikongo Eastern Kikongo Southern Kikongo: Hungu-Pombo, Koongo-Kituba (Congo Kituba, DRC Kituba, South-Central Koongo) West Kikongo San Salvador Kongo Yombe...
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others speak either Lingala, a common lingua franca in Western Congo, or Kikongo ya Leta (generally known as Kituba particularly in the Republic of the...
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County, Sichuan, China Hezhou, based on Uyghur and relexified by Mandarin Kituba language, a Kongo based creole language spoken in the Democratic Republic...
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1%, Sangha 5.6%, Europeans and other 23.9% French (official), Kituba or Monokutuba (lingua franca), Kongo or Kikongo, Lingala, and many local languages...
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the Fifty-Second Congress 1892-'93. p.572. "Cabindês, Fiote ou Ibinda: Língua Nacional de Cabinda." Retrieved 15 January 2010. (in Portuguese) Elizera...
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(U.S.) and Lloyd Balderston Swift, Kituba; Basic Course, Department of State, 1963, p.10 Salikoko S. Mufwene, Kituba, Kileta, or Kikongo? What's in a name...
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of the French Basque Country, it has no recognition. Wolof, the de facto lingua franca and majority language in Senegal, is also a minority language in...
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Europa. ISBN 978-3-96939-004-7 Samarin, William J. (1990) 'The origins of Kituba and Lingala', Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 12, 47-77. Bwantsa-Kafungu...
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in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English)...
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spoken in the country, of which four have the status of national languages: Kituba (Kikongo), Lingala, Tshiluba, and Swahili. Although some limited number...
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prefix *ba-) occur in all Bantu languages: for example, as bantu in Kikongo, Kituba, Tshiluba and Kiluba; watu in Swahili; ŵanthu in Tumbuka; anthu in Chichewa;...
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Hindi-based: Andaman Creole Hindi Japanese-based creole languages Kongo-based: Kituba Malay-based creole languages Ngbandi-based: Sango Portuguese-based creole...
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Congo: French (official), Lingala and Kituba national languages plus other dialects, including Kikongo and Kituba. Burundi: Kirundi (national and official)...
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Shaba Swahili, G40G Ngwana (Congo Swahili), G40H KiKAR Kongo-based: H10A Kituba, H10B Munukutuba, H10C Habla Congo (in Cuba) Nkore-Kiga-based: JE10A Runyakitara...
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