Munukutuba

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Munukutuba is a widely used Bantu lingua franca of the Republic of the Congo and surrounding regions, serving as a major language of trade and interethnic communication.

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Label Occurrences
Munukutuba canonical 2

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
creole language
lingua franca
natural language
trade language
alternateName Kikongo ya Leta
Kituba
Munukutuba Kituba
linked to: Kituba

Munukutuba language
country Angola
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
derivedFrom Kikongo
developedAs simplified variety of Kikongo
glottocode munu1244
hasAncestor Kongo language
linked to: Kikongo
hasMorphologicalFeature reduced noun class system
hasPhonologicalFeature simple vowel system
hasSyntacticFeature subject-verb-object word order
ISO639-3 ktu
languageBranch Niger-Congo languages
languageCodeType ISO 639-3
languageFamily Bantu
languageSubfamily Kikongo language cluster
lexicalInfluenceFrom French
Kikongo
officialStatus national language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
national language of the Republic of the Congo
primaryFunction communication between speakers of different ethnic languages
region Central Africa
Congo River basin
linked to: Congo River

Lower Congo region
spokenBy migrant communities in Central Africa
urban populations in the Republic of the Congo
various ethnic groups in the Republic of the Congo
status major lingua franca in Central Africa
widely used in the Republic of the Congo
usedAs interethnic communication language
language of trade
lingua franca
usedIn Bas-Congo region
linked to: Bas-Congo

Brazzaville
Pointe-Noire
usedInDomain commerce
transport
urban informal communication
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kituba alsoKnownAs Munukutuba
ktu hasAlternativeName Munukutuba