• Lingala-English dictionary by Felix Divuilu (2005)
• Dictionnaire français-lingala-sango: French-Lingala-Sango dictionary, by Musanji Ngalasso-Mwatha (2013)
• Súka-époque: Lingala-French dictionary
• Premiers mots en lingala : First words in Lingala, Lingala-French dictionary, by Pascal Grouselle (WaybackMachine)
• Lingala.be: Lingala-French dictionary
• Memrise: Lingala phrases with translation into French (WaybackMachine)
• Ks ludotique: Lingala-French common phrases
• Grammaire et vocabulaire du lingala ou langue du Haut-Congo: Lingala vocabulary and grammar, by Égide De Boeck (1904)
• Notions de lingala ou langue du Haut-Fleuve, vocabulaire et phrases pratiques, by Égide De Boeck (1904)
• L'expression de la joie et de la peur en lingala et en anglais, by Régine Alende, thesis (2000)
→ Lingala keyboard to type diacritics & the special characters of the Lingala alphabet ɛ ɔ
• A polylectal grammar of Lingála and its theoretical implications, by Eyamba Bokamba, in Annual conference on African linguistics (2012)
• Lingala basic course, Foreign Service Institute (1963)
• Grundkurs Lingala: Lingala course, by Nico Nassenstein (2010) (in German)
• Directionality in Lingala (2012)
• Tokoyekola lingala: Lingala grammar, by the brothers of Saint-Gabriel (1937)
• The Lingála-Kiswahili border in North-Eastern Congo: its origins in Belgian colonial state formation of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, by Michael Meeuwis, in Africana linguistica (2006)
• Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala by Michael Meeuwis & Koenraad Stroeken, in Pragmatics (2012)
• The emergence of Langila in Kinshasa by Nico Nassenstein, in Youth language practices in Africa and beyond (2015)
• Directionality in Lingala by Nico Nassenstein, in Directionality in grammar and discourse (2012)
• studies about the Lingala language, by Bienvenu Sene Mongaba
• Le lingála dans l'enseignement des sciences dans les écoles de Kinshasa, une approche socioterminologique, thesis (2013)
• studies sabout the Lingala language, by Philippe Nzoimbengene
• Le lingála au Congo-Kinshasa : profil sociolinguistique, in Congo-Afrique : économie, culture, vie sociale (2013)
• Le lingála entre hier et aujourd'hui : bantouité et géographie (2013): I & II (Les méandres de l'histoire)
• L'expression ébóngó (alors, et puis) en lingála : de l'adverbe au connecteur pragmatique (2014)
• Les discourse markers en lingála : étude sémantique et pragmatique sur base d'un corpus de lingála de Kinshasa oral, thesis (2016)
• Biblafrique: hymns in Lingala (+ sheet music)
• Chansons et proverbes lingalas: Lingala-French bilingual songs and proverbs (1993)
• Chansons populaires de Brazzaville, la femme est le rêve du citadin: popular songs, by Augustin-Marie Milandou, in Journal des anthropologues (1995)
Bato nyonso na mbotama bazali nsomi pe bakokani na limemya pe makoki.
Bazali na mayele pe basengeli kofanda na bondeko okati na bango.
→ First article in different languages
→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: bilingual text in Lingala, English & other languages
losáko ! | hello! |
mboté ! | good morning, good evening! |
butú elámu ! | good night! |
sángo níni ? | how are you? |
malámu ! | well! |
melesí ! | thank you ! |
paladó ! | please! |
nayóki | I understand |
nayókité | I don't understand |
tata | daddy |
mama | mummy |
moasi | woman |
kitoko | beautiful |
moninga | friend |
libonza | present |
mokánda | |
zoba | idiot |
pili-pili | piment |
kipekapeka | butterfly |
monoko | mouth |
likata | penis |
→ Congo: country of the Congo River
→ Congo-Brazzaville (ancient French Congo français, North): maps & documents
→ Congo Kinshasa (ancient Belgian Congo, south): maps & documents
→ Swahili