Lingala
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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He arrived with the ability to speak three languages — French, Swahili and Lingala.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
The majority of the new students speak Portuguese, Spanish, French and Lingala, the language of northwest Congo.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024
People in the video, including a distressed woman who says her husband died in the attack, speak a mixture of Arabic and Lingala, the language spoken mainly in the west of DR Congo.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2023
A good chunk of the crowd, in the local Lingala language, took it significantly farther.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023
He was speaking Lingala, but his accent sounded like a Swahili speaker’s.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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