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Komo language (Bantu)





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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.

Komo
Kikuumu
Native toDR Congo

Native speakers

(400,000 cited 1998)[1]

Language family

Niger–Congo?

Language codes
ISO 639-3kmw
Glottologkomo1260

Guthrie code

D.23[2]

Phonology

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Consonants

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Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labio-
velar
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t t͡ʃ k k͡p
voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ ɡ͡b
prenasal ᵐb d ᶮd͡ʒ ᵑɡ ᵑɡ͡b
implosive ɓ ɗ ʄ
Fricative ɸ s
Nasal m n ɲ
Approximant l

Vowels

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Front Central Back
Close i u
Close-mid e o
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

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See also

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Komo people (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

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  1. ^ KomoatEthnologue (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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