Mono language (Congo)

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Mono
Spoken in: Democratic Republic of the Congo 
Region: Northwestern corner of Congo (DRC)
Total speakers: 65,000
Language family: Niger-Congo
 Atlantic-Congo
  Volta-Congo
   Adamawa-Ubangi
    Ubangi
     Banda
      Central
       Mono
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: bad
ISO 639-3: mnh
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Mono is a language spoken by about 65,000 people in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the Banda languages, of the Ubangi subgroup of Adamawa-Ubangi, a branch of Niger-Congo. The Mono people distinguish five dialects: Bili, Bubanda, Mpaka, Galaba, and Kaga.

Mono has 33 consonant phonemes, including three labial-velar stops (/kp/, /gb/, and prenasalized /ŋmgb/), an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap. It is a tonal language.

[edit] References

  • Olson, Kenneth S. and Brian E. Schrag. 2000. 'An overview of Mono phonology', in Wolff & Gensler (eds.) Proceedings 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997, pp. 393-409.

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