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3.1Basic vocabulary similarity rates between selected present-day KLC varieties
3.2Assumed distribution of Kikongo language groups across the kingdom’s provinces (and neigbouring kingdoms)
3.3Augments and noun class prefixes in seventeenth-century Kikongo according to Brusciotto (Reference Brusciotto1659)
3.4Augments and noun class prefixes in eighteenth-century Kikongo from Kakongo as found in a 1772 dictionary manuscript
3.5Linguistic evidence discussed in this chapter and its historical relevance
8.1Differences between Kongo stone and clay pipes from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries