Republic of the Congo Languages

Description
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa. It should not be confused with the large neighboring country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The official language is French with Kituba and Lingala as national languages.
 * French - Spoken by 30% of the Congolese population
 * Kituba or Munukutuba - A simplified Kikongo creole is used by 50.35% of the population who live in the south
 * Lingala - The river language that is spoken mainly in the north and east and has grown quickly in the past few years

Word List(s)
French
 * French Genealogical Word List
 * Most Common French Words at 1000MostCommonWords
 * Useful French phrases at Omniglot

Kituba or Munukutuba
 * Kituba-English Word List at Kupsala

Lingala
 * Useful phrases in Lingala at Omniglot
 * Lingala Word List at 101Languages

Alphabet and Pronunciation
French
 * French Alphabet and Pronunciation at Wikipedia
 * French Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot

Kituba or Munukutuba
 * Kituba Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
 * Kituba Vowels at Wikipedia
 * Kituba Consonants at Wikipedia

Lingala The Lingala language has 35 letters and digraphs. The digraphs each have a specific order in the alphabet; for example, mza will be expected to be ordered before mba, because the digraph mb follows the letter m. The letters r and h are rare but present in borrowed words. The accents indicate the tones as follows:
 * Lingala Alphabet and Pronunciation at Omniglot
 * Lingala Phonology at Wikipedia
 * Lingala Alphabet and Pronunciation at Wikipedia
 * no accent for default tone, the low tone
 * acute accent for the high tone
 * circumflex for descending tone
 * caron for ascending tone

Language Aids and Dictionaries
French
 * French Handwriting
 * French Letter Writing Guide
 * France Languages
 * French to English Dictionary at Cambridge
 * French Dictionary at Lexilogos

Kituba or Munukutuba
 * Kituba Pronouns at Wikipedia
 * Kituba Nouns at Wikipedia
 * Kituba Verbs at Wikipedia
 * Dictionary English - Kituba at Glosbe

Lingala
 * Characteristics and usage at Wikipedia
 * Lingala Noun class system at Wikipedia
 * Verbal extensions at Wikipedia
 * Tense inflections at Wikipedia
 * Lingala dictionary at Lexilogos
 * Guthrie, Malcolm and J F Carrington. Lingala : grammar and dictionary : English-Lingala, Lingala-English. Available at WorldCat
 * Mawadza, Aquilina and Yeno Matuka. Lingala dictionary & phrasebook : a language of Central Africa. New York : Hippocrene Books, Inc., [2016]. Available at WorldCat

Additional Resources

 * Kituba (Lingua Franca Kikongo). University of Hawai'i Press. Available at JSTOR
 * Baongoli, Arizona M. Learn to speak Lingala. Eldoret, Kenya : A.M. Baongoli, ©2009. Available at WorldCat
 * Redden, James E; F Bongo; Foreign Service Institute (U.S.). Lingala : basic course. Washington : Dept. of State, 1963. Available at WorldCat
 * Swift,	Lloyd B; Emil W A Zola; Foreign Service Institute (U.S.). Kituba, basic course. Washington : Foreign Service Institute [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1963. Available at WorldCat