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• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Languages -- Bibliography
• Banziri language
• Bari language (Nilotic)
• Bemba language
• Bobangi language
• Kingwana language
• Kituba language (Congo (Democratic Republic))
• Kongo language
• Lamba language (Zambia and Congo)
• Lingala language
• Lokele language
• Losengo language
• Luba-Lulua language
• Lugbara language
• Ma language
• Mamvu language
• Mangbetu language
• Mongo-Nkundu language
• Monjombo language
• Ngbaka language
• Ngiri languages
• Ntomba language
• Sanga language
• Tabwa language
• Yombe language (Congo and Angola)
• Zande language

• Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages (1903), by Walter Henry Stapleton
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• 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)

• A Bibliography of Congo Languages (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908), by Frederick Starr
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• Ouvrages publiés par les Pères Jésuites de la préfecture apostolique du Kwango au Congo Belge (1893-1914). (J.-B. Istas, 1914.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Die sprache der Bari in Central-Afrika. Grammatik, text und wörterbuch. (A. Weger, 1867), by J. C. Mitterrutzner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bari grammar and vocabulary (J. & E. Bumpus, ltd., 1908), by Roger Carmichael Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bari grammar and vocabulary (J. & E. Bumpus, ltd., 1908), by Roger Carmichael Robert Owen (page images at HathiTrust)

• An introductory handbook to the language of the Bemba - people (Awemba). (London missionary society, 1904), by W. Govan Robertson and London Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bemba-English vocabulary (Hulbert Pub. Co., 1926), by W. Lammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leçons de chibemba-français. (Congo Book Concern, 1926), by Congo Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Leçons de chibemba-français. (Congo Book Concern, 1926), by Congo Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bemba-English vocabulary (Hulbert Pub. Co., 1926), by W. Lammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Imibele ya buntu bwine bwine : ifyo mfwile ukuba ne muntu (Mission Press, 1922), by Union Bemba Language Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hymns of praise in Chibemba (Printed for the Katanga Book Store of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with the consent of the Central Africa District Committee of the London Missionary Society, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Leçons de chibemba-français. (Congo Book Concern, 1926), by Congo Book Concern (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)

• 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)

• Matula. Ebo embe Ombe Masiya o Ba-Kongo elengibwa na Nkasa. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1905), by J. Bell and John Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mangongo ma soni Yakobo, Petelo, Yoane, na Yuda. (Bolobo, 1904), by J. A. Clark, A. E. Scrivener, and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nzembo li Ba-yuda. (American Baptist Missionary Union, 1905), by A. Billington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mambi ma ndenge ma boyekolaka. Mputa na bice bi Bobangi. (Baptist Missionary Society, Congo Independant State, 1905), by D. Dron and J. A. Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ketiene mokana mo boso. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lingomba li Yesu Masiya likoyongan'o Bolobo. Mibeko na Mateyo. (Baptist Missionary Society, Congo State, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harry's Catechism. (Bolobo Mission, 1905), by L. M. De Hailes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nzembo li bonyambe. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nzembo li Bonyambe. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abalayama, e sango embe Bayambi. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ba-yisalaela o Ezipeto, mpe et'e balongoli Nyambe o bontamba. (Baptist Missionary Society, Congo Independent State, 1905), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibo bi bato ba Yambo. Monkana mo misato. Bobandaka na saula e mokonzi yek'o bolongwibwi bo Ba-Yuda. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1897), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loketi lo Ba-yisalaela o Moleki. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1898), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ma kala-kala ma bokumak'o monkana mo Nyambe. Monkana no boso. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mateyo ma bolukaka ma Bonyambe. (Bolobo Mission, 1904), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Yosepa: e mwan'o bonkisa. Loyino lo Bayebi ba Yeye, mpe et'e basabinyi Yeye. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1903), by A. E. Scrivener (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mayela ma busa. (Peep of Day). (American Baptist Missionary Union, 1897), by Favell Lee Mortimer and A. Billington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monkana mo boso mo tanga. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1895), by John Whitehead (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)

• 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
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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)

• Lingala, basic course (Dept. of State; [for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1963), by Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) and James E. Redden (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)

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