🇨🇬 Country
Congo
Congo is home to 64 languages, spoken across Central Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Brazzaville
Nationality
Congolese
Currency
Central African CFA Franc (XAF)
Languages
64
Independence
Aug 15, 1960
63 active
1 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Congo; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.
All languages in Congo
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Akwa
80K
Aka
Bobangi
Bekwel
Beembe
Bomitaba
Bomwali
Bongili
Bonjo
Bwisi
Endangered
Dibole
Doondo
Fang
Gbaya
Hausa
Kongo
Kituba
Kaamba
Kako
Koongo
Kota
Koyo
Kunyi
Lingala
Likuba
100K
Likwala
Laari
Lumbu
Mbere
Moi
25K
Mbandja
Mbangwe
Mboko
Mbosi
Monzombo
Mpyemo
Ngbaka
Njebi
Ndasa
Ngbaka Ma’bo
Ngom
Ngundi
Ngungwel
Njyem
Ombamba
Punu
Pomo
Suundi
Teke-Tyee
Teke-Fuumu
Teke-Ibali
Teke-Kukuya
Teke-Laali
Teke-Nzikou
Teke-Tege
Teke-Tsaayi
Tsaangi
Teke-Eboo
Tshiluba
Vili
Wumbvu
Yaka
Yombe
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