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• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Linguistische ergebnisse einer reise nach Centralafrica. (Wiegandt & Hempel, 1873), by Georg August Schweinfurth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai sur le peuple et la langue sara (Bassin du Tchad) (Librairie africaine & coloniale, 1897), by Maurice Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai sur le peuple et la langue Sara, bassin du Tchad. (J. André, 1897), by Maurice Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Linguistische ergebnisse einer reise nach Centralafrica. (Wiegandt & Hempel, 1873), by Georg August Schweinfurth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vocabulaire français-luguaret et luguaret-français (Impr. Veuve Monnom, 1912), by M Amet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire français-monvu et monvu-français : dressé d'après les renseignement fournis par Coens & Goderie. (Veuve Monnom, 1912), by agent militaire Coens and sous-officier Goderie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La langue des Makere, des Medje et des Mangbetu (Éditions Dominicaines Veritas, 1928), by A. Vekens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire français-mangbetu et mangbetu-français : dressé d'après les renseignements fournis par Autrique ... [et al.]. (Veruve Monnom, 1912), by Emile Jean Marie Autrique (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Vocabulaire des dialectes sango, bakongo et a'zandé (A. Challamel, 1908), by Gaston Giraud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Documents sur les langues de l'Oubangui-Chari. (E. Leroux, 1906), by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mukanda wa Chiluba; mikanda wa cinina ne bwalu bwa fidi mukulo (Printed by Spottiswoode, 1899), by Samuel Phillips Verner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die äquatoriale Sprachfamilie in Central-Afrika. (In Commission bei F. Tempsky, 1889), by Friedrich Müller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai sur le peuple et la langue banda (région du Tchad) (J. André, 1904), by Georges Toqué (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictionnaire français-banda et banda-français : précédé d'un essai de grammaire banda (Mission Catholique, 1907), by Pierre Cotel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dictionnaire français-banda et banda-français : précédé d'un essai de grammaire banda (Mission Catholique, 1907), by Pierre Cotel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Congo français (P. Geuthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire français-gbéa : précédé d'éléments de grammaire (P. Geunthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire de la langue baya (Haute Sanga) (A. Challamel, 1900), by Léopold Landréau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vocabulaire de la langue baya (Haute Sanga). (Augustin Challamel, 1900), by Léopold Landréau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Congo français (P. Geuthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Congo français (P. Geuthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire des dialectes sango, bakongo et a'zandé (A. Challamel, 1908), by Gaston Giraud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vocabulaire sangho, Haut-Oubangui (Impr. J. Boyard, 1909), by G H Brachiel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vocabulaire français-sango et sango-français, langue commerciale de l'Oubangui-Chari (P. Geuthner, 1911), by J. Calloc'h (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lexique orthographique sango. (Centre Pastoral, 1900), by Central African Republic) Centre Pastoral (Bangui (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lexique orthographique sango. (Centre Pastoral, 1900), by Central African Republic) Centre Pastoral (Bangui (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Langue des Azande (3 volumes (Bibliothèque Congo #6-8), in French and Zande; Ghent: Editions Dominicaines "Veritas", 1921-1922), by C.-R. Lagae and V. H. Vanden Plas
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  • all volumes bound together: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Vocabulaire des dialectes sango, bakongo et a'zandé (A. Challamel, 1908), by Gaston Giraud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Linguistische ergebnisse einer reise nach Centralafrica. (Wiegandt & Hempel, 1873), by Georg August Schweinfurth (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Langue des Azande (3 volumes (Bibliothèque Congo #6-8), in French and Zande; Ghent: Editions Dominicaines "Veritas", 1921-1922), by C.-R. Lagae and V. H. Vanden Plas
  • all volumes bound together: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • all volumes bound together: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Vocabulaire français-azande et azande-français. (Impr. Veuve Monnom, 1912), by Block (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Éléments pour un manuel zande : avec phrases, conversations et vocabulaire (Imprimerie de l'Abbaye, 1912), by Norbert Dolan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Grammar and dictionary of the Bobangi language as spoken over a part of the Upper Congo, West Central Africa; comp. and prepared for the Baptist missionary society's mission in the Congo independent state (Baptist missionary society [etc.], 1899), by John Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Exercices de lecture et d'écriture en pahouin et en français. (Dubois, 1898), by H. Trilles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, Under the Direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N.; To Which is Added, The Journal of Professor Smith (London: J. Murray, 1818), by James Hingston Tuckey, contrib. by Christen Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J.K. Tuckey, R.N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. (W.B. Gilley, 1818), by James Hingston Tuckey and Christen Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vocabulary of Kibangi, as spoken by the Babangi (commonly called Bayansi) on the upper Congo from Kwa Mouth (Kasai) to Liboko (Bangala). English-Kibangi. (East London institute for home and foreign missions;, 1886), by A. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire sainte française et fiote, ... (Imprimerie de la Mission, 1889), by Villemereux (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (Congo Independent State, 1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vocabulaire des dialectes sango, bakongo et a'zandé (A. Challamel, 1908), by Gaston Giraud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grammar of the Congo language as spoken two hundred years ago (Harley House [etc., 1882), by Giacinto Brusciotto, James Mew, and H. Grattan Guinness (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Tuckey's narrative (John Murray, 1818), by James Hingston Tuckey, John Murray, Charles Dietrich Eberhard König, Robert Brown, Everard Home, William Elford Leach, John Barrow, Christen Smith, Christen Smith, and W. Bulmer and Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les langues spontanées dites commerciales du Congo; le monokotuba comparé au lingala et au lari de la région du Pool (V. Simarro, 1925), by Edouard Eliet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Method of Transliteration of the Proper Names of Scripture into Congo Languages (Lukolela: Baptist Missionary Society, 1910), by John Whitehead and Lilian Frederica Whitehead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kilolo-English vocabulary. (East London institute for home and foreign missions, 1891), by James B. Eddie and L. M. De Hailes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congo : vocabulaire pratique; francais, anglais, zanzibarite (swahili), fiote, kibangi-irébou, mongo, bangalas (Bulens, 1894), by Charles Lemaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transliteration of Bible proper names into Congo languages (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by John Whitehead, L. F. Whitehead, and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comparative handbook of Congo languages. (Yakusu, 1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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