lingala in English
noun
1
a Bantu language used by over 8 million people as a lingua franca in northern parts of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
Speakers of African language Lingala , Persian language Farsi, Lithuanian and Somali are among those needed.
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1. A full program of Christian meetings was arranged in the Lingala language so that the arrivals would be supplied with life-sustaining spiritual food.
2. The other Bantu languages I’ve looked at have all been a bit “weird” — Swahili because of its heavy Arabic influence, Lingala because it’s a colonial pidgin, and Xhosa because of its