Mono language (Congo)
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| Mono | ||
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| 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 |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bad | |
| ISO 639-3: | mnh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
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.
[edit] External links
- Ethnologue report on Mono
- SIL article on new phonetic symbol for labiodental flap
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