Also Known As: Amono
Description:
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 Ubangian family, 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 (/k͡p/, /g͡b/, and prenasalized /g͡b/), an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap /ⱱ/. It is a tonal language...... full article at Wikipedia |
Location of Mono Language Speakers
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9.102097, 18.281250, Africa
-2.663311, 23.886417, Democratic Republic of the Congo</googlemap>
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