English

Proper noun

Lingala

1. A Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic.

Synonyms

• Bangala

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Lingala terms
• Appendix:Lingala Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Lingala

External links

• ISO 639-1 code ln, ISO 639-3 code lin
• Ethnologue entry for Lingala, ln
• **** Epoque, an online magazine featuring two serious Lingala/French and French/Lingala word pair lists
• Pascal Grouselle's French/Lingala and Lingala/French online dictionary, smaller, but with example sentences

Anagrams

• gallian

French

Noun

lingala m ‎(uncountable)

1. Lingala (language)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Lingala Lingála ‎(“Lingala”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lĩ.ˈɡa.lɐ/

Noun

lingala m (uncountable)

1. Lingala (Bantu language)