Mituku language
Bantu language spoken in DR Congo
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Kinya-Mituku | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Region | Orientale Province |
Native speakers | 51,000 (2000)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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ISO 639-3 | zmq |
Glottolog | mitu1242 |
D.13 [2] |
Mituku (also known as Kinya-Mituku or Metoko[3]) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Mokpá dialect is distinct.
Tones
It is a tonal language with four tones: high, low, falling and rising. Downstep can occur between two high tones or between a high and falling tone. A contour (rising or falling) tone can occur on a vowel if and only if the vowel is the realization of two underlying vowels.[4]
References
- ^ Mituku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Mituku language". www.language-archives.org. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ Laks, Bernard; Durand, Jacques; Goldsmith, John (2002). Phonetics, phonology, and cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 80–83. ISBN 9780198299837.
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