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Kikongo aka Kongo
Kikongo
Native to	Ancient Kingdom of Kongo prior to the creation of Angola by the Portuguese Crown in 1575 and the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) that balkanized the rest of the Kingdom of Kongo into three territories that are now parts of the DRC (Kongo Central and Bandundu), Angola, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
Ethnicity	"Bisi Kongo" (plural) and "Mwisi Kongo" (singular) prior to the Berlin Conference and then "Bakongo" (pl.) and "Mukongo" (sing.) after that;^[1] thus we have Bakongo from Angola, the DRC, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
Native speakers	(c. 6.5 million cited 1982–2012)^[3] 5 million L2 speakers in DRC (perhaps Kituba)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone H) Kongo-Yaka Kongo languages (H.10) *Kikongo aka* Kongo**
Writing system	Latin, Mandombe
Official status
Official language in	National language and unofficial language: Angola Non-national language and non-official language: Democratic Republic of Congo Republic of Congo
Recognised minority language in	Gabon
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`kg`
ISO 639-2	`kon`
ISO 639-3	`kon` – inclusive code Individual codes: `kng` – Koongo `ldi` – Laari `kwy` – San Salvador Kongo (South) `yom` – Yombe^[2]
Glottolog	`core1256` Core Kikongo; incl. Kituba & ex-Kongo varieties `yomb1244` Yombe
Guthrie code	`H.14–16`^[4]
Map of the area where Kongo and Kituba as the lingua franca are spoken. NB:^[5]^[6]^[7] Kisikongo (also called Kisansala by some authors) is the Kikongo spoken in Mbanza Kongo. Kisikongo is not the mother language that carries the Kongo (i.e. Kikongo) Language Cluster.