Lingala (Fictional Language?)

This might be Lingala (Real Language) or something similar to that language. It was used in the past, when humans still spoke to each other using these strange words. Nowadays, most of them don't speak any more, but some of them live on in legends and stories. Lingala is very difficult to translate into English. Some say it sounds like "lizard tongue", others say it sounds like "crocodile tongue". All that's known is that it's very hard to understand, and even harder to write. The alphabet is very similar to the Latin Alphabet, except that it contains fewer letters. There are twenty-four symbols in total, and each symbol represents a letter of the alphabet.