sentences:  Due to the low literacy of Lingala speakers in Lingala (in the Republic of the Congo literacy rate in Lingala as a first language is between 10% and 30%), its popular orthography is very flexible and varies from one Congo to the other.Some orthographies are heavily influenced by the French language orthography; including double S, "ss", to transcribe [s] (in the Republic of the Congo); "ou" for [u] (in the Republic of the Congo); i with trema, "aï", to transcribe or ; e with acute accent, "é", to transcribe [e]; "e" to transcribe , o with acute accent, ó, to transcribe or sometimes [o] in opposition to o transcribing [o] or ; i or y can both transcribe [j].The allophones are also found as alternating forms in the popular orthography; "sango" is an alternative to "nsango" (information or news); "nyonso", "nyoso", "nionso", "nioso" (every) are all transcriptions of "nyɔ́nsɔ".