Mongo speakers reside in the north-west of the country over a large area inside the curve of the Congo River.
Maho (2009) lists one of these, Bafoto (Batswa de l'Equateur), C.611, as a separate language.
[5] As Ruskin explains in the foreword to the book, his goal was to train missionaries in the Mongo language.
Here are some examples: There are also 21 Mongo fables in the book, including a story about Ulu, the trickster Tortoise.
[10] For more recent bibliography, see A. J. de Rop's La littérature orale mongo, published in 1974.