Kongo ma ọ bụ Kikongo bụ otu n'ime asụsụ Bantu nke ndị Kongo bi naDemocratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon na Angola na-asụ. Ọ bụ asụsụ tonal. Ọtụtụ n’ime ndị e si n’ógbè ahụ ree wee ree ha dị ka ndị ohu na America kwuru ya. N'ihi nke a, ebe a ka na-asụ Kongo na mba ndị a kpọtụrụ aha n'elu, a na-ahụ ụdị asụsụ a na-emegharị emegharị n'okwu ememe nke okpukpe Afro-American, karịsịa na Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic na Haiti. Ọ bụkwa otu n'ime isi mmalite asụsụ Gullah[4] na Palenquero creole na Colombia. Ọnụ ọgụgụ ka ukwuu nke ndị na-ekwu okwu n'oge a bi n'Africa. Enwere ihe dị ka nde asaa ndị na-asụ Kongo, yana ikekwe nde abụọ ndị ọzọ na-eji ya dị ka asụsụ nke abụọ.
Kongo bụ asụsụ nke alaeze Kongo tupu e kee Angola site na Crown Portuguese na 1575 na Berlin Conference (1884-1885) nke mere ka ndị fọdụrụ n'alaeze ahụ ghọọ mpaghara atọ, bụ ugbu a akụkụ nke DRC (Kongo). Central na Bandundu), Republic of the Congo na Gabon.
Asusu Kongo
Kikongo bụ ntọala maka asụsụ Creole Kituba, nke a na-akpọkwa Kikongo de l'État na Kikongo ya Leta (French na Kituba n'otu n'otu maka "Kikongo nke ọchịchị steeti" ma ọ bụ "Kikongo nke steeti").[5] Usoro iwu nke Republic of Congo na-eji aha Kituba, [6] na otu nke Democratic Republic of Congo na-eji okwu Kikongo, [7] ebe Kituba (ya bụ Kikongo ya Leta) na-eji na nchịkwa. Enwere ike ịkọwa nke a site n'eziokwu na Kikongo ya Leta na-akpọkarị Kikongo (ya bụ KiNtandu, KiManianga, KiNdibu, wdg).[8][5][9]
Kikongo na Kituba na-asụ na:
Ndịda Republic of Congo:
Kikongo (Yombe, Vili, Ladi, Nsundi, wdg) na Kituba :
Kouilou,
Niari,
Bouenza,
Ndekọ,
ndịda Brazzaville,
Pointe-Noire,
Kikongo (Ladi, Kongo Boko, wdg):
Ọdọ mmiri;
Ndịda ọdịda anyanwụ nke Democratic Republic of Congo:
Kikongo (Yombe, Ntandu, Ndibu, Manyanga, wdg) na Kikongo ya Leta :
