Kikongo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Prayers by the faithful were recited in Swahili, Lingala, Tshiluba and Kikongo, the country’s four official languages.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
He also has some level of competency in Swahili, East Africa's main language, and in Kikongo, spoken in parts of southern and central Africa.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2019
He points to a creole called Palenquero that melds Spanish and Kikongo and is spoken by Afro-Colombians.
From Economist ● Feb. 1, 2018
During the colonial era, Catholic seminaries and missionary schools had taught European church music, translating choral hymns into Kikongo, the language of the Bas-Congo region, where most Kimbanguists come from.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
Many Kikongo words resemble English words backward and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backward.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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