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Kongo

Bantu language spoken in Angola, Congo Brazzaville and Congo Kinshasa
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Summary

Kongo is a macrolanguage[1]. Kongo draws 3,161 Wikipedia views per month (macrolanguage category, ranking #6 of 12).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ethnic group: Kongo people[3]
  • Country: Republic of the Congo[4], Democratic Republic of the Congo[5], Angola[6]
  • Instance of: modern language[7], natural language[8]
  • Subclass of: Kongo-Yaka-Sira[9]
  • Writing system: Latin script[10]
  • Commons category: Kikongo language[11]
  • Wikimedia language code: kg[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kongo language[13]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,016,500[14]
  • Topic has template: Q138754686[15]
  • Native label: kikongo[16]
  • UNESCO language status: national language[17], 1 safe[18]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/KON[19]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: Obelepédia[20], WikiProject Languages[21], WikiProject Angola[22], WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo[23], WikiProject Africa[24]

Why It Matters

Kongo has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] Kongo is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Angola Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 759
    Sitelink count → 73
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 759, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326694|Kongo (#7326694)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 5w ago · Léna · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → Q131938994, WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Angola +2
    Ethnic group → Kongo people
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Ethnic group: Kongo people"
  3. 8w ago · Treisijs · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → Q131938994, WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Angola +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Languages"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
    Coordinates → —
    Instance of → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007545971505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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