Comparative handbook of Congo languages;
being a comparative grammar of the eight principal languages spoken along the banks of the Congo river from the west coast of Africa to Stanley Falls, a distance of 1300 miles, and of Swahili, the "lingua franca" of the country stretching thence to the east coast, with a comparative vocabulary giving 800 selected words from these languages, with their English equivalents, followed by appendices on six other dialects;
comp. and prepared for the Baptist Missionary Society, London.

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Main Author

Stapleton, Walter Henry.

Language(s)

English ; Multiple languages

Published

Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo Independent State, 1903.

Subjects

Swahili language.
Kongo language.
African languages.

Physical Description

[a]-t, xxiii, 326 p. tables. 23 cm.

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