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KONGO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Kongo mean?
• KONGO (noun)
The noun KONGO has 1 sense:
1. the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
Familiarity information: KONGO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kongo" is a kind of...):
Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
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