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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, 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.

Title: 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, 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, London, by Walter Henry Stapleton.
Author: Stapleton, Walter Henry.
Publication: Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo Independent State, 1903.

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Baptist Missionary Society.

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xxiii, 326 p. tables.

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Photocopy.

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Sc 496.3-S (Stapleton, W. Comparative handbook of Congo languages)

OCLC

5957843
NYPGR5957843-B

Author

Stapleton, Walter Henry.

Title

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, 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, London, by Walter Henry Stapleton.

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Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo Independent State, 1903.

Reproduction

Photocopy. New York : NYS Preservation Photocopying of Brittle Reference Materials for the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2000.

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Baptist Missionary Society.

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Sc 496.3-S (Stapleton, W. Comparative handbook of Congo languages)

RTB (Stapleton, W. H. Comparative handbook of Congo languages)

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