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, an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap /ⱱ/. It is a tonal language.

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  • 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, an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap /ⱱ/. It is a tonal language.
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  • Niger-Congo
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  • Mono
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  • Northwestern corner of Congo (DRC)
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  • 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, an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap /ⱱ/. It is a tonal language.
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  • Mono language (Congo)
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