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Title: Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages - 1903-gctid140541
Post by: Mani Kongo on Jan 16, 2015, 01:27 AM
COMPARATIVE HANDBOOK OF CONGO LANGUAGES

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Being a Comparative  Grammar of the    Eight Principal Languages spoken along the banks of  the Congo River   from  the West Coast of Kmt 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.

Compiled and Prepared for the Baptist Missionary Society, ukkk,
By Walter Henry Stapleton, Missionary of the Society on the Upper Congo River.
Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo Independent State. 1903.

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Below is the Table of Contents for download (23 pages PDF).
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Title: Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages - 1903-gctid140957
Post by: Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Jan 17, 2015, 07:36 AM
Nkote ko zô!
This looks absolutely amazing!
Matôndo! Thanks for bringing this to the community!
Title: Comparative Handbook of Congo Languages - 1903-gctid141240
Post by: Mani Kongo on Jan 19, 2015, 07:28 PM
QuoteObadele Kambon;140957 wrote: Nkote ko zô!
This looks absolutely amazing!
Matôndo! Thanks for bringing this to the community!
Ka diâmbu ko, likambo té. I like comparative study in general but this one is really perfect for me. And Kiswahili being inlcluded makes it even better.