- Mono language (Congo)
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Not to be confused with Mono language (Solomon Islands) or Mono language (Native American).
Mono Spoken in Democratic Republic of the Congo Region Northwestern corner of Congo (DRC) Native speakers 65,000 (1984) Language family Ubangian- Banda
- Central Banda
- Mid-Southern
- Mono
- Mid-Southern
- Central Banda
Language codes ISO 639-3 mnh This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Mono is a language spoken by about 65,000 people[1] in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the Banda languages, a subbranch of the Ubangian branch of the Niger–Congo languages. It has five dialects: Bili, Bubanda, Mpaka, Galaba, and Kaga.
Mono has 33 consonant phonemes, including three labial-velar stops (/k͡p/, /ɡ͡b/, and prenasalized /ᵑ͡ᵐɡ͡b/), an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap ([ⱱ]) that contrasts with both /v/ and /w/. It is a tonal language.
References
- Kamanda-Kola, Roger. 2003. Phonologie et morpho-syntaxe du mono: Langue oubanguienne du Congo R.D. (LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 60). Munich: LINCOM EUROPA.
- Olson, Kenneth S. 2004. 'Mono'. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34(2). 233–238.
- Olson, Kenneth S. 2005. The phonology of Mono (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 140). Dallas: SIL & UTA.
- Olson, Kenneth S. & Brian E. Schrag. 2000. 'An overview of Mono phonology'. In H. Ekkehard Wolff & Orin Gensler (eds.), Proceedings from the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997, 393–409. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
External links
- SIL article on new phonetic symbol for labiodental flap
Categories:- Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ubangian languages
- Niger-Congo language stubs
- Banda
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