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[Anonymous]. 1xxx. Un vocabulaire français-lokele. Yakusu (Congo-Léopoldville): Baptist Mission Press. 12pp.
[Anonymous]. 1xxx. Prefatory grammar notes for Kele. Yakusu (Congo-Léopoldville): Baptist Mission Press. 16pp.
Amundala Bin Ramazani. 1976. Les aspects de la grammaire générative et transformationnelle de la langue Lokele. Lubumbashi: UNAZA, Mémoire de Licence.
Carrington, John F. 1940. The tonetics of the Lokele language. Yakusu (Congo-Léopoldville). 19pp.
Carrington, John F. 1943. The tonal structure of Kele (Lokele). African studies 2. 193-209.
Carrington, John F. 1947. The initiation language: Lokele tribe. African studies 6. 196-207.
Carrington, John F. 1959. Notes on Dr Sim's Yalulema vocabulary. African studies 18. 74-78.
Carrington, John F. 1972. Coalescing and non-coalescing vowel roots in Lokele. African studies 31. 203-209.
Carrington, John F. 1972. Esquisse de grammaire lokele, non publié. Kisangani.
Carrington, John F. 1973. Proverbes lokele.
Kalokola Belole. 2006. Chants et danses « Bonanga » chez les Lokele. Kisangani: ISP, Mémoire de Licence.
Lifondja Bokotaotelu. 2006. Etude comparative des anthroponymes dans les langues bantu et non bantu de la Province Orientale : Cas des langues Alur et Lokele. Kisangani: UNIKIS, Mémoire de Licence.
Lifondja Bokotaotelu. 2012. Etude ethnolinguistique des textes sacrés Lokele : Cas de bénédiction et malédiction. Kisangani: UNIKIS, FLSH, Mémoire de DES.
Likaya Bombeku. 2013. Use of Lokele and English Relative pronouns : A contrastive study. Kisangani: UNIKIS, Travail de fin de Cycle.
Millman, William. 19xx. Notes, manuscripts, correspondence, etc. on missionary work in Central-Africa, incl. educational matters and some material on the Kele language. Manuscripts and notes in 13 boxes, ref. PP MS 34. London: SOAS.
Millman, William. 1926. Vocabulary of Ekele: the language spoken by the Lokele tribe living between Yanjali and Stanleyville, Congo Belge. Yakusu: Baptist Missionary Society. 12+246pp.
Motingea Mangulu, André. 2012. Contributions aux études linguistiques sur le haut Congo: Esquisse du Soa, Mbesa, Tofoké, Lokelé. (Language monograph series, 6.) Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 288pp.
Sims, Aaron B. 1887. A short vocabulary of the Yalulema language, as spoken in the Bosoko (Aruwimi), Mawembe and Lolami (Lomami) districts in the Upper Congo. London & Boston: East London Inst. for Home and Foreign Missions; American Baptist Missionary Union. 35pp.
Stapleton, Walter H. 1906. Note on the Kele verb. Journal of the African Soc. 5. 290-299.
– Works including multiple languages, comparative works:
Bastin Y., Coupez A. & Mann M. 1999. Continuity and Divergence in the Bantu languages: perspectives from a lexicostatistic study. Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa.
Forfeitt, William. 19xx. Unpublished notes: Kele, Likangala, Abuja, Bwela, Lifoto, Ngombe.
Grollemund, Rebecca, Simon Branford, Koen Bostoen, Andrew Meade, Chris Venditti and Mark Pagel. 2015. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112. 13296-13301.
Guthrie, Malcolm. 1971. Comparative Bantu: an introduction to the comparative linguistics and prehistory of the Bantu languages, 2: Bantu prehistory, inventory and indexes. London: Gregg International. 180pp.
Hulstaert, Gustaaf. 1951. Les langues de la cuvette centrale congolaise. Aequatoria 14. 18-24.
Johnston, Harry H. 1919, 1922. A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 840pp. ("Bibliography of the Bantu and semi-Bantu languages": v. 1. p. [785]-815).
Michell, George Babington. 1906/09. Unpublished vocabularies of Hemba, Bambuttu, Lokele, Bambole, Bakumu.
Stapleton, Walter H. 19xx. Unpublished vocabularies: Bakusu, Moleka, Bangba, Babale, Babati, Lifoma, Yakusu, Topoke, Turumbu, Soko, Teke.
Stapleton, Walter H. 1903. Comparative handbook of Congo languages: being a comparative grammar of the eight principal languages spoken along the banks of the Congo river from the west coast of Africa to Stanley Falls, and of Swahili, the 'lingua franca' of the country stretching thence to the east coast. Yakusu (Congo Free State) & London: Baptist Missionary Soc.; Kegan Paul. xxiii+326pp.
Stapleton, Walter H. 1905. Note on the terms used for 'right hand' and 'left hand' in the Bantu languages. Journal of the African Soc. 4. 431-433.
Tracey, Hugh T. 19xx. Kele, Mangbele, Ngala/Buja, Ngala. (Sound of Africa series, TR 129.) Grahamstown: International Library of African Music (ILAM).
– Ethnographies, history, literature, etc.:
Bokanga, Itindi. 1988. Bibliographie des Lokele. Cahiers des religions africaines 12. 143-174.
Carrington, John F. 1944. The drum language of the Lokele tribe. African studies 3. 75-88.
Carrington, John F. 1976. Wooden drums for inter-village telephony in central Africa. Journal of the Institute of Wood Science 7. 10-14.
Carrington, John F. 1991. Genres littéraires lokelé (haut-Zaïre). Annales Aequatoria 12. 471-474.
Johnston, Harry Hamilton. 1908. George Grenfell and the Congo: a history and description of the Congo Independent State and adjoining districts of Congoland, together with some account of the native peoples and their languages, the fauna and flora; and similar notes on the Cameroons and the island of Fernando Pô, the whole founded on the diaries and researches of the late Rev. George Grenfell, B.M.S., F.R.G.S.; and on the records of the British Baptist Missionary Society; and on additional information contributed by the author, by the Rev. Lawson Forfeitt, Mr Emil Torday, and others. London: Hutchinson & Co. xx+990pp. (2 vols).
Lokomba, Baruti. 1972. Structure et fonctionnement des institutions politiques traditionnelles ches les lokele. (Les cahiers du CEDAF (Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Africaines), série 2: administration, politique, histoire, 8.) Bruxelles.
Smith, H. Sutton. 1910. "Yakusu": The very heart of Africa. London: Marshall Brothers. 410pp.
Walle, Sombo Bolene. 1990. Les migrations des peuples du Bas-Lomami (Haut-Zaïre) du 17e au 18e siècle. Annales Aequatoria 11. 9-45.
Werner, J.R. 1889. The Congo, and the Ngala and Aruwimi tributaries. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography 11. 342-351.
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