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Language code: kon

Technical information about ISO 639 language code kon

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The table below provides technical details for the Kongo language, designated by the kon code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

kon

Name

Official

Kongo

Native

Kikongo

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Kisikongo (Southern Kongo)LaariYombeViliBeembe
Related languages
KitubaLingalaKimbunduYaka
Key facts
One of the earliest Bantu languages to be written, first recorded by missionaries in the late 16th centuryUses a rich noun-class system with about 18 grammatical classesThe prestige dialect Kisikongo served the royal court of the historic Kongo KingdomKongo contributed much vocabulary to Atlantic creoles such as Palenquero and GullahContemporary orthography employs Latin letters with diacritics to mark tone and vowel quality.
Sample phrase

Mbote, ngeke zala mbote?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Kongo language, identified by the code kon, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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