or is a Kongo-based liturgical language of the Palo religion with origins in Cuba, later spreading to other countries in the Caribbean Basin. It originated from Bakongo people enslaved in Spanish America, during the Atlantic Slave Trade. The language may be called or but is generally referred to simply as , meaning "language" in Spanish. It involves code-switching between Kongo-derived words and phrases; Bozal Spanish, the archaic Spanish creole of the Caribbean slave plantations, or at least an imitation of it; and colloquial Caribbean Spanish.
A (Palo priest) would say that he (or ) "speaks Kongo," , or . It is not secret, but it is intended to be impenetrable to the uninitiated.