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Mono is a language spoken by about 65,000 people〔(Ethnologue report for Mono )〕 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 (, , and prenasalized ), an asymmetrical eight-vowel system, and a labiodental flap (allophonically a bilabial flap ) that contrasts with both and . It is a tonal language. ==References== 〔 *Kamanda-Kola, Roger. 2003. ''Phonologie et morpho-syntaxe du mono: Langue oubanguienne du Congo R.D.'' (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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mono language (Congo)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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