Lingala

Lingala
Lingala
Ngala
Lingála
Native to	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
Region	Congo River
Speakers	Native speakers: 20 million (2020); L2 speakers: 20 million speakers (2020)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone C) Bangi–Ntomba (C.30) Bangi–Moi Bangi Lingala; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bangala;
Writing system	African reference alphabet (Latin), Mandombe script
Official status
Official language in	Congo–Kinshasa (national language); Congo-Brazzaville (national language);
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ln
ISO 639-2	lin
ISO 639-3	lin
Glottolog	ling1269
Guthrie code	C30B
Linguasphere	99-AUI-f
	Geographic distribution of Lingala speakers, showing regions of native speakers (dark green) and regions where Lingala is spoken by a minority. (light green)

Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: Lingála) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in Angola, the Central African Republic, Kenya and southern South Sudan. Lingala has 25–30 million native speakers and about 35 million second-language speakers, for an approximate total of 60–65 million speakers.

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