Ilunga

Ilunga is a relatively common family name in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

In 2004 the British translation agency Today Translations declared the word Ilunga to be the most difficult to translate of all words through a survey of 1,000 linguists. Ilunga comes from the Tschiluba language . According to Today Translations , the word refers to a man who is willing to forgive an insult or attack once, who is ready to accept it a second time, but who is by no means willing to accept it a third time, but then to the Defense passes.

Name bearer

• Danyo Ilunga (* 1987), German-Congolese K-1 fighter
• Didier Ilunga-Mbenga (* 1980), basketball player from the DR Congo and for Belgium
• Hérita Ilunga (* 1982), football player from the DR Congo
• Kalala Ilunga (19th century), mythical founder king of the Luba Empire
• Kasongo Ilunga (* 1972), Foreign Trade Minister of the DR Congo with an unclear identity
• Mwepu Ilunga (1949–2015), Zairean football player
• Sylvestre Ilunga (* 1947), Congolese politician
• Yves Diba Ilunga (* 1987), Congolese national soccer player

Web links

• BBC News: Congo word "most untranslatable"
• THE TIMES “The most untranslatable word in the world” with a list of the ten most difficult to translate (non-English) words