lu
Technical information about ISO 639 language code lu
The table below provides technical details for the Luba-Katanga language, designated by the lu
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Luba-Katanga belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is primarily spoken in parts of the Haut-Katanga and Lualaba provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and uses the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Luba-Katanga speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
lu-CD
– Luba-Katanga (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
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