The Online Books Page

Kongo language

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Angola -- Languages
• Bantu languages
• Congo (Brazzaville) -- Languages
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Languages

• Kongo language -- Bibliography
• Kongo language -- Dictionaries
• Kongo language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Kongo language -- Grammar
• Kongo language -- Intonation
• Kongo language -- Readers
• Kongo language -- Texts
• Kituba language (Congo (Democratic Republic))
• Laadi language
• Vili language

• Congo language
• Fiote language
• Kikongo language

• 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
  • 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; 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)

• 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)

• Le plus ancien dictionnaire bantu = Het oudste Bantu-woordenboek : vocabularium p. Georgii Gelensis (J. Kuyl-Otto, 1928), by Joseph van Wing, C Penders, and vader Joris van Geel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Appendix to the Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As Spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa (1895), by W. Holman Bentley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As Spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa (1887), by W. Holman Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary and grammar of the Kongo language, as spoken at San Salvador, the ancient capital of the old Kongo empire, West Africa. (Baptist Missionary Society and Trübner, 1887), by W. Holman Bentley and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• English-Congo and Congo-English dictionary (Harley house, 1883), by Henry Craven and John Barfield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le plus ancien dictionnaire bantu = Het oudste Bantu-woordenboek : vocabularium p. Georgii Gelensis (J. Kuyl-Otto, 1928), by Joseph van Wing, C Penders, and vader Joris van Geel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide de conversation français-congolais (Ministère des colonies, 1911), by William Holman Bentley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire fiot-français (Maison-mère, 1890), by Alexandre Visseq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire français-fiote, dialecte du Kakongo (Maison-Mère, 1890), by Holy Ghost Fathers and Belgian Congo Bas-Congo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionnaire Vili-Français (in French and Vili; Loango: Impr. de la Mission, 1902), by Christophe Marichelle
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Petit vocabulaire français-congolais, congolais-françias. Extrait d'une grammaire française en congolaise (B.M.S., [Baptist Missionary Society], 1904), by Bentley and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Appendix to the Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As Spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa (1895), by W. Holman Bentley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As Spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa (1887), by W. Holman Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kituba : basic course (Dept. of State, 1963), by Lloyd Balderston Swift, Emile W. A. Zola, and Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary and grammar of the Kongo language, as spoken at San Salvador, the ancient capital of the old Kongo empire, West Africa. (Baptist Missionary Society and Trübner, 1887), by W. Holman Bentley and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lärobok i Kongospråket (Kikongo) (Svenska Missionsförbundets Expedition, 1912), by K. E. Laman, R. Walfridsson, and J. W. Håkanson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eléments de la langue congolaise, suivis d'un choix de phrases graduées et de deux vocabulaires. (Desclée, De Brouwer, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammar of the Congo language as spoken two hundred years ago (Hodder & Stoughton, 1882), by Giacinto Brusciotto, James Mew, and H. Grattan Guinness (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire fiote; ou, Grammaire de la langue du Congo (Maison-mère, 1889), by Alexandre Visseq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grammaire fiote : ou, grammaire de la langue du Congo (Maison-Mère, 1889), by Alexandre Visseq (page images at HathiTrust)
• La langue Lebéo : grammaire et vocabulaire (Vromant, 1924), by Père Gérard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kituba : basic course (Dept. of State, 1963), by Lloyd Balderston Swift, Emile W. A. Zola, and Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Musical Accent: or, Intonation in the Kongo Language (1922), by K. E. Laman, contrib. by Wilhelm Heinitz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The musical accent : or, Intonation in the Kongo language (Svenska Missionförbundets Förlag, 1922), by K. E. Laman and Wilhelm Heinitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nkanda ubadukulwanga tanga mu kifioti. (Swedish missionary society, 1901), by Svenska missionsförbundet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Masonukwa Manlongo (British and foreign Bible society, 1905), by K. E. Laman, Svenska missionsförbundet, and British and Foreign Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I nsangu zambote zasoneka Yowani. (Baptist Missionary Society, 1892), by W. Holman Bentley and Baptist Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nkunga ye ngana; i nkanda miole mia luwawanu luankulu. Misekwelo muna Kikongo. (Bible Translation Society, 1907), by W. Holman Bentley, Baptist Missionary Society, and Bible Translation Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nkanda wantualumunu ulongukulwanga tualumuna tanga. (Matadi, 1900), by R. Walfridsson and Svenska missionsförbundet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nkanda wabilekwa bianza uzayulwanga mpangulu ye nkadulu au. I. Kimfumu kiabibulu ye minti ye bititi ye matadi. ([Wanietukwa ku Londe, S.M.S., Matadi, 1899), by K. E. Laman and Svenska missionsförbundet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Manual de linguas indígenas de Angola : segundo o programa oficial para exames administrativos (s.n.], 1922), by António Miranda Magalhães and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Folk-tales of Angola; fifty tales with Kimbundu text, liberal English translation, introduction, and notes. (Boston : American Folk-lore Society, 1894., 1894), by Héli Chatelain and American Folklore Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lehrbuch des Oshikuanjama (Bantu-Sprache in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika) (W. Spemann, 1891), by P. H. Brincker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lehrbuch der Ovambo-Sprache Osikuanjama. (G. Reimer, 1910), by Hermann Tönjes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A comparative vocabulary of Sikololo--Silui--Simbunda (J. Bale, 1916), by D. E. C. Stirke and A. W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze : textes originaux (E. Leroux, 1896), by Édouard Jacottet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lehrbuch des Oshikuanjama (Bantu-Sprache in Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika) (W. Spemann, 1891), by P. H. Brincker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische Grammatiken der Hauptsprachen Deutsch-Südwestafrikas. I. Nama (Sprache der Nama-Hottentotten) ... II. Otyiherero (Sprache der Herero) ... III. Oshindonga (Sprache des Ndonga-Stammes der Ovambo) ... (A. Hartleben, in the 1910s), by A. Seidel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Ovimbundu of Angola (Chicago, 1934), by Wilfrid D. Hambly (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.