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Ciluba ezaliezalí [[lokótá]] na bato na [[Kasaï]] na [[Kɔ́ngɔ-Kinshasa|Kɔ́ngɔ-demokratiki]].
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==History==
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==Classification==
Tshiluba belongs to the [[Bantu]] branch of the [[Niger-Congo languages]].
==Geographic distribution==
Tshiluba is spoken by about 6.3 million people in the [[Kasaï Occidental]] and [[Kasaï Oriental]] provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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===Dialects===
There are significant dialect differences between the [[East Kasai Region]] ([[Baluba]] people) and the [[West Kasai Region]] ([[Bena Lulua]] people).
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==Vocabulary==
The [[Bantu]] word identified in [[June 2004]] by Today's Translations, a [[Britain|British]] translation company, as the most [[ilunga|untranslatable]] in the world: ''[[ilunga]]'', in the Tshiluba tongue, means "a person ready to forgive any abuse the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time". However, it is more likely to be a [[personal name]] rather than a difficult word.
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==Sources==
*MacIntyre, Ben. ''Why do Koreans say 'a biscuit would be nice' instead of 'I want a biscuit'?'', The Times, [[August 21]], [[2004]].
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