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• Narrative of an Expedition Into The Vy Country of West Africa, and the Discovery of a System of Syllabic Writing, Recently Invented by the Natives of the Vy Tribe (London: Seeleys et al., 1849), by S. W. Koelle
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• Negro Culture in West Africa (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia (Hutchinson & co., 1906), by Harry Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liberia (Dodd, Mead & company, 1906), by Harry Hamilton Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro culture in West Africa; a social study of the Negro group of Vai-speaking people, with its own invented alphabet and written language shown in two charts and six engravings of Vai script, twenty-six illustrations of their arts and life, fifty folklore stories, one hundred and fourteen proverbs and one map. (Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberia (Hutchinson & Co., 1906), by Harry Johnston and O. Stapf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary (Church missionary house, 1853), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language : together with a Vei-English vocabulary : and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing (Church Missionary House, 1854), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary (Church missionary house, 1853), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing. (Church Missionary House, 1968), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language : together with a Vei-English vocabulary : and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing (Church Missionary House, 1854), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A dictionary of the Grebo language (E.O. Jenkins, 1860), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The languages of Liberia. (Hutchinson & Co., 1906), by Harry Hamilton Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English language in Liberia : the annual address before the citizens of Maryland County, Cape Palmas, Liberia--July 26, 1860 : being the day of national independence (New York : Bunce & Co., printers, 1861., 1861), by Alexander Crummell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Encyclopédie pahouine, Congo français : éléments de grammaire et dictionnaire français-pahouin (E. Leroux, 1901), by Victor Largeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Encyclopédie pahouine, Congo français : éléments de grammaire et dictionnaire français-pahouin (E. Leroux, 1901), by Victor Largeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mononate puhmu nemo so a kpudi so, ewo Nyesoa a Kenede ke ; epoede Gedebo Nwi kudi kede Gbede ko Ta he ; Rev. Dr. Barth's Bible history ; translated into the Gedebo language, from the 184th German edition, for the Prot. Ep. Mission on the Liberian coast, W. Afrika. (Printed by J.F. Steinkopf, 1871), by Christian Gottlob Barth and Episcopal Church. Missionary District of Liberia (page images at HathiTrust)

• A dictionary of the Grebo language (E.O. Jenkins, 1860), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grebo Kona Ah Te: or, History of the Greboes (in Grebo; New York: Printed by E. O. Jenkins, 1860), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel according to St. Luke (American Bible society, 1848), by John Payne and American Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bede kinede ko sakramente a kpone he; ne cue a kpone be ko o bede te he, yedi (King & Baird, 1867), by Episcopal Church and John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bede kinede ko sacramente a kpone he ... (Philadelphia : King & Baird, Printers, 1867., 1867), by Episcopal Church and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gospel according to St. Matthew (The American Bible Society, 1868), by John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grebo hymns; for the use of the Prot. Episcopal mission, Cape Palmas, W.A. (Printed on the Messenger press, Cavalla. W. A., 1857), by W. A. Protestant Episcopal church in the U.S.A. Missions. Cape Palmas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ensayo gramatical del idioma de la raza africana de Ñano (imprenta de la Sociedad literaria y tipográfica, 1845), by Gerónimo M. Usera y Alarcon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Langue néouolé. (E. Leroux, 1905), by Georges Thomann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Langue néouolé. (E. Leroux, 1905), by Georges Thomann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La-yia yēkpẹ̄ nanīsia, wọ̄tẹnga Mende-bẹla ti K₋eny₋ē-l₋ēi hũ. (British and Foreign Bible Soc., 1872), by Henry Johnson, Harvey Ritchell, and Jacob Friedrich Schoen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mende natural history vocabulary. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1913), by F. W. H. Migeod (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dialects of Mandekan (Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, 1981), by Charles S. Bird, United States. Office of Postsecondary Education. Office of International Education, and Bloomington. Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies Indiana University (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Bambara du Ségou et du Kaarta; étude historique, ethnographique et littéraire d'une peuplade du Soudan Français. (Larose, 1924), by Charles Monteil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur la langue bambara, parlée dans le Kaarta et dans le Bélédougou, suivi d'un vocabulaire, avec une carte indiquant les contrées où se parle cette langue (Maisonneuve frères et C. LeClerc, 1886), by Louis Gustave Binger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur la langue bambara, parlée dans le Kaarta et dans le Bélédougou, suivi d'un vocabulaire, avec une carte indiquant les contrées où se parle cette langue (Maisonneuve frères et C. LeClerc, 1886), by Louis Gustave Binger and France. Ministère de la marine et des colonies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionnaire bambara-français précédé d'un abrégé de grammaire bambara (Imprimerie nationale, 1906), by Hippolyte Bazin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petit dictionnaire français-bambara et bambara-français. (P. Geuthner, 1913), by Moussa Travélé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire Bambara-Français Français-Bambara (Missions d'Afrique des Pères Blancs, 1926), by Émile Sauvant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Manuel bambara (Maison-Carrée, 1925), by Émile Sauvant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Petit manuel français-bambara, à l'usage des troupes noires (Imp. des Missionnaires d'Afrique, 1917), by P. M. Ferrage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Petit manuel français-bambara, à l'usage des troupes noires (Imp. des Missionnaires d'Afrique, 1917), by P. M. Ferrage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Mende language, containing useful phrases, elementary grammar, short vocabularies, reading materials (K. Paul, Trench, Trüber & co., ltd., 1908), by Frederick William Hugh Migeod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai de manuel pratique de la langue mandé ou mandingue : étude grammaticale du dialecte dyoula, vocabulaire français-dyoula, histoire de Samori en Mandé, étude comparée des principaux dialectes mandé. (E. Leroux, 1901), by Maurice Delafosse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Travels in the interior districts of Africa : performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 (Printed by W. Bulmer and co. ;, 1807), by Mungo Park (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vocabulary of the Mandingo language as spoken in the Gambia. With appendices. (West, Newman & Co., 1911), by Emilius Hopkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Reading Book in the Soso Language (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887), by P. H. Douglin
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• A grammar and vocabulary of the Susoo language : to which are added the names of some of the Susoo towns near the banks of the Rio Pongas, a small catalogue of Arabic books, and a list of the names of some of the learned men of the Mandinga and Foulah countries, with whom an useful correspondence could be opened up in the Arabic language. (Printed by J. Ritchie, Blackfriars Wynd, 1802), by John Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionnaire français-soso et soso-français. (Mission Catholique de Conakry, 1923), by Jean Baptiste Raimbault (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A grammar and vocabulary of the Susoo language : to which are added the names of some of the Susoo towns near the banks of the Rio Pongas, a small catalogue of Arabic books, and a list of the names of some of the learned men of the Mandinga and Foulah countries, with whom an useful correspondence could be opened up in the Arabic language. (Printed by J. Ritchie, Blackfriars Wynd, 1802), by John Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of a grammar of the Susu language (West Africa). (London, 1865), by J. H. Duport and R. R. (page images at HathiTrust)

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