kongo|kongos in English

noun

member of a Bantu people that lives in west-central Africa along the lower Congo river; Bantu language spoken by the Kongos, language used as a lingua franca in west Zaire and southern Congo and north Angola

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1. Check 'Buffos' translations into Kongo

2. Groot Besettings In die Kongo Kongo Vrystaat (1885–1908) 'n Wit sendeling poseer saam met 'n Kongolese man wat deur die regering van die Kongo Vrystaat vermink is

3. Cão sailed back to Portugal carrying a party of Kongo emissaries.

4. Angolans men and women had been captured in a series of wars against the Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms in west central Africa

5. The JS Kongo also participated, tracking the targets and conducting a successful simulated intercept. The target fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean.

6. Abbreviations and Cryptonyms Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960–1968 ABAKO , Alliance des Ba-Kongo

7. Portuguese is the official language, although 95 percent of Angolans speak Ovimbundu, Mbundu, Kongo, Chokwe, and other languages. Portuguese remains important because it is the language of government, national media, and international relations

8. The debate about the appropriateness of staff notation for African music is a subject of particular interest to outsiders while African scholars from Kyagambiddwa to Kongo have, for the most part, accepted the conventions and limitations of staff notation, and produced transcriptions to inform and enable discussion and debate (Agawu 2003, 52).

9. Former: Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa, Zaire abbreviation: DRC (or DROC) etymology: named for the Congo River, most of which lies within the DRC; the river name derives from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom that occupied its mouth at the time of Portuguese discovery in the late 15th century and whose name stems from