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Definition of Kongo
1. Noun. The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola.
Definition of Kongo
1. Proper noun. A Bantu language (or family of languages) of Central Africa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kongo
Literary usage of Kongo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Dy- bowski, Maistre and Clozel followed in his wake, and their repeated efforts
gradually enlarged the sphere of France's activity in Kongo- land. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"The Geographical Journal. No. 5. MAY, 1902. VOL. XIX. THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF
Kongo * : ITS PRESENT POSITION AND POSSIBILITIES.! By the Hev. THOMAS LEWIS. ..."
3. Carpenter's Geographical Reader; Africa by Frank George Carpenter (1905)
"LIFE UPON THE Kongo WE have been traveling for weeks upon the Kongo River, ...
It is a great lake, right in the course of the Kongo, twenty-five miles long ..."
4. The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the by Andrew Battell, Samuel Purchas (1901)
"A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF Kongo TO THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE EARLY
HISTORY OF Kongo. JF traditions may be accepted where written history ..."
5. Pioneering on the Congo by William Holman Bentley (1900)
"APPENDIX II THE LORD'S PRAYER IN EIGHT OF THE Kongo LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS. ...
on the north of the mouth of the Congo, a dialed of Kongo. ..."
6. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"Empire of Kongo. On the western side of Africa, ... if we except the region
comprised in the empire, so termed, of Kongo. Of the latter we have more ..."
7. Primary Geography by Alex Everett Frye (1894)
"Kongo Basin. It is thought that the basin of the Kongo is about equal in area
tothat of the ... The Kongo river flows on a plateau till it reaches the _-, ..."
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