Ilunga, a word in the Bantu language of Tshiluba, is said to be the world's most difficult word to translate, according to a survey of 1,000 linguists. This word means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time". Tshiluba is a language only spoken in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.