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Ciluba, Tshiluba Autonyms

Luba-Kasai

Summary

Luba-Kasai is a language of wider communication that originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. The language is used as a first language by all in the ethnic community. It is used as a language of instruction in education.

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  • Population

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  • Language Vitality

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    This graph shows the vitality of Luba-Kasai.

    • Institutional — The language has been developed to the point that it is used and sustained by institutions beyond the home and community.
    • Stable — The language is not being sustained by formal institutions, but it is still the norm in the home and community that all children learn and use the language.
    • Endangered — It is no longer the norm that children learn and use this language.
    • Extinct - The language is no longer used and no one retains a sense of ethnic identity associated with the language.

    These four summary levels have been derived by grouping levels in the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS), which is the more fine-grained scale that Ethnologue uses to assess the status of every language in terms of development versus endangerment; see Language Status for a description of the levels of that scale. See also the pages on Development and Endangerment for more discussion.

  • Digital Language Support

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    This graph shows the level of digital support for this language (as measured by the method described here.

    • Still — this language shows no signs of digital support
    • Emerging — the language has some content in digital form and/or encoding tools
    • Ascending — the language has some spell checking or localized tools or machine translation as well
    • Vital — the language is supported by multiple tools in all of the above categories and as well as some speech processing
    • Thriving — the language has all of the above plus virtual assistants

Family

It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family.

Existing Content

  • Periodicals
  • Radio
  • TV
  • Videos
  • Dictionary
  • Grammar
  • Texts
  • Bible (1927–1996)

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Explore Luba-Kasai and 210 other languages used in Democratic Republic of the Congo with Ethnologue: Languages of Democratic Republic of the Congo —a downloadable PDF document that provides detailed analysis presented in formats not available in the online version of Ethnologue. It includes:

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  • Alphabetical listing of languages in the country, with in-depth descriptions.
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  • Indexes of ISO 639 codes and alternate language names.

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