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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
kongo is a noun meaning "the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola". It carries one recorded sense.
the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kongo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.