Luvale
295K people can hold a conversation in Luvale across 1 country; official in 0.
Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 lue · Glottolog luva1239 · Atlantic-Congo · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet
Where Luvale is spoken
Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.
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Small territories are not drawn at this scale.
Countries
Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.
How this is measured
Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.
Family
Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Southern Bantoid
- Narrow Bantu
- Central-Western Bantu
- Njila
- Southern Njila
- Chokwe-Lunda
- Chokwe-Ngangela-Nyemba (K.20)
- Chokwe-Lwena
- Luvale
Atlantic-Congo: 143 languages, 609M speakers.
Where these numbers come from
- Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
- Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
- Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair linguistic proximity (loaded, not yet shown in release one).
- States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
- Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
- Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).
Definitions are on the Method page.