Original sentence: Four other languages have the status of national language: Kikongo, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba.The official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is French.There is an estimated total of 242 languages spoken (Ethnologue
Edited sentence: Four indigenous languages have the status of national language: Kikongo, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba.The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a multilingual country where an estimated total of 242 languages are spoken (Ethnologue.The official language, inherited from the colonial period, is French