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Lingala (other)
Lingala can refer to: * Lingala language in central Africa * Lingala, Mandavalli mandal a village in Mandavalli mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India. * Lingala, Vatsavai mandal a village in Vatsavai mandal, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India. * Lingala, Kadapa district, a village and mandal in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, India. * Lingala, Telangana, a village in Khammam district, state of Telangana, India. * Lingala, NTR district, a village in NTR district, state of Andhra Pradesh, India. See also * Lingala music, a synonym for Soukous music {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lingala Language
Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: ) 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 as a trade language or because of emigration in neighbouring Angola or Central African Republic. Lingala has 20 million native speakers and about another 20 million second-language speakers, for an approximate total of 40 million speakers. A significant portion of both Congolese diasporas speaks Lingala in their countries of immigration like Belgium, France or the United States. History Before 1880, Bobangi was an important trade language on the western sections of the Congo River, between Stanley Pool (Kinshasa) and the confluence of the Congo and Ubangi rivers (Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo). When the first Europeans and their West- and East-African troops started founding state posts for the Belgian king along this river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
