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Publisher: www.luvila.com Publication date: 1895 Number of pages: 340 More than seven years have passed since the completion of the Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo language. During this time the New Testament has been translated, and other books for religious instruction and school use have been translated and prepared ; a Bi-monthly Magazine," Se kukianga" (The Dawn is Breaking), has appeared, containing original native articles. School work has been well pushed, and a Kongo correspondence passes freely between the natives about our stations. Kongo can no longer be spoken of as an unwritten language.All this literary activity has called for an Appendix to the work published in 1887. Every new word acquired has been most carefully preserved and investigated ; obscure idioms, and any constructions throwing light on the Grammar and Syntax, have been noted. While the New Testament was in the press, the Appendix to the Dictionary was printed. Returning to the Kongo a few days after the first hundred copies of the New Testament came from the book-binders, the mass of Grammatical and Syntactical notes which had accumulated was studied and arranged. The Dictionary of 1887 contains so

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Bentley William Holman.

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