1,010,000 (2000). 600,000 monolinguals. Total users in all countries: 1,016,650.
Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Positive attitudes. Some also use Lingala [lin]. A few also use French [fra]. Used as L2 by Gilima [gix], Mbandja [zmz], Mono [mnh], Ngbundu [nuu].