Mono | |
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Native to | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Region | Northwestern corner of Congo (DRC) |
Native speakers
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(65,000 cited 1984 census) |
Ubangian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | mono1270 |
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, 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/ (allophonically a bilabial flap [ⱳ]) that contrasts with both /v/ and /w/. It is a tonal language.
Consonants in Mono: m, k, j, p , w, n, s, t, b, l, h, g, d, ɲ, f, t̠ʃ, ʔ, ʃ, r, z, d̠ʒ, v, gb, kp, ʒ, ɓ, mb, ŋg, nd, ɗ, n̠d̠ʒ, ŋmɡb, ⱱ.
Vowels in Mono: i, a, u, o, ɨ, ə, e, ɔ.
Tones in Mono: high, low, medium