Mono (also Amono ) is one of the Adamava-Ubangian languages of the gang branch, which is spoken by 65 thousand people (1985), the language of the Mono people. Distributed in the northwest of the DRC [1] [3] [4] [7] .
| Mono | |
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| Country |  DRC [1] [2] |
| Regions | Northwest of the country [1] [2] |
| Total number of speakers | 65,000 people (1984) [3] [4] [5] [6] |
| Classification | |
| Category | African languages |
African languages
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| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | |
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Dialects
Mono has five dialects: Bili [8] , Bubanda, Mpaka, Galaba and Kaga. [7]
Phonology
List of mono consonants: 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. [2]
List of mono vowels: i, a, u, o, e, ɔ. [2]
List of mono tones: high, low, medium. [2]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Glottolog 2.4 - Mono (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 PHOIBLE Online
- ↑ 1 2 Ethnologue report for Mono
- ↑ 1 2 Mono language (Congo)
- ↑ Mono, Amono in Congo, Democratic Republic of | Joshua project
- ↑ Mono digital wordlist: Archival form
- ↑ 1 2 ScriptSource - Mono (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- ↑ Niger-Congolese Proto-Language: Personal Pronouns - Kirill Babaev - Google Books . books.google.com.ua. Date of treatment August 16, 2016.
Literature
- Kamanda-Kola, Roger. 2003. Phonologie et morpho-syntaxe du mono: Langue oubanguienne du Congo RD (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.
Links
- SIL article on new phonetic symbol for labiodental flap