{{Infobox language family |name=Kongo |altname=Kikongo |ethnicity= |region= |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Volta-Congo |fam4=Benue–Congo |fam5=Bantoid |fam6=Southern Bantoid |fam7=Bantu (Zone H.10) |fam8=Kongo–Yaka–Sira? |glotto=kiko1235 |glottorefname=Kikongo language cluster | map = LanguageMap-Kikongo-Kituba.png | mapcaption = Map of the area where Kongo and Kituba as the lingua franca are spoken. }}
The '''Kongo languages''' are a clade of Bantu languages, coded Zone H.10 in Guthrie's classification, that are spoken by the Bakongo: : Beembe (Pangwa, Doondo, Kamba, Gangala), Ndingi, Kunyi, Mboka, Kongo, Western Kongo, Laari (Laadi), Vili, Yombe, Suundi
==Languages== ''Glottolog'', based on Koen Bostoen (2018, 2019),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bostoen |first1=Koen |last2=de Schryver |first2=Gilles-Maurice |year=2018 |chapter=Seventeenth-century Kikongo is not the ancestor of present-day Kikongo |editor-last1=Bostoen |editor-first1=Koen |editor-last2=Brinkman |editor-first2=Inge |title=The Kongo kingdom: the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity |pages=60–102 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bostoen |first1=Koen |last2=de Schryver |first2=Gilles-Maurice |year=2018 |chapter=Langues et évolution linguistique dans le royaume et l’aire kongo |editor-last1=Clist |editor-first1=Bernard-Olivier |editor-last2=de Maret |editor-first2=Pierre |editor-last3=Bostoen |editor-first3=Koen |title=Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo |pages=51–55 |location=Oxford |publisher=Archaeopress}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pacchiarotti |first1=Sara |last2=Chousou-Polydouri |first2=Natalia |last3=Bostoen |first3=Koen |year=2019 |title=Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess: identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages |journal=Africana Linguistica |volume=21 |pages=87–162}}</ref> classifies two dozen languages of the Kongo language cluster as follows: *Kikongo language cluster **Hungan-Samba: Hungan, Samba **Nuclear cluster ***Yaka-Suku: Suku, Yaka-Pelende-Lonzo ***"Kikongoic" ****Beembe ****Kambakunyic Kikongo *****Kamba-Kunyi: Kaamba, Kunyi *****Kilaadic Kikongo ******Nuclear Northern Kikongo: Doondo, Laari, Suundi ******Central-Southern Kikongo *******Southeastern Kikongo ********Eastern Kikongo ********Southern Kikongo: Hungu-Pombo, Koongo-Kituba (Congo Kituba, DRC Kituba, South-Central Koongo) *******West Kikongo ********San Salvador Kongo ********Yombe ********Vilic *********Vili *********Lumbuic **********Lumbu, Bwisi **********Ngubi; Punu - Vumbu (Vungu), Sangu - Sira - Barama
These are closest to Mbuun, Ngongo and Nsong-Mpiin.<ref>{{glotto|klce1234|KLC Extended}}</ref>
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{{Narrow Bantu languages}} Category:Kongo language
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