Komo language (Bantu)
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Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
Not to be confused with Komo language (Sudan).
Komo | |
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Kikuumu | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Native speakers | (400,000 cited 1998)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kmw |
Glottolog | komo1260 |
D.23 [2] |
Komo is a Bantu language spoken by half a million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including an area around the major upriver port of Kisangani.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | ||
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Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | k͡p |
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ɡ͡b | |
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡ͡b | |
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ʄ | |||
Fricative | ɸ | s | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Approximant | l |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
See also
Komo people (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
References
- ^ Komo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ Thomas, John Paul (1992). A morphophonology of Komo: non-tonal phenomena. University of North Dakota.
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