Komo language (Bantu) explained

Komo language (Bantu) should not be confused with Komo language (Sudan).

Komo
Nativename:	Kikuumu
States:	DR Congo
Speakers:	400,000
Date:	1998
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Volta-Congo
Fam4:	Benue–Congo
Fam5:	Bantoid
Fam6:	Southern Bantoid
Fam7:	Bantu (Zone D.20–30)
Fam8:	Boan
Iso3:	kmw
Glotto:	komo1260
Glottorefname:	Komo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Guthrie:	D.23

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.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
	voiced	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
	prenasal	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
	implosive	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Nasal		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Approximant			pronounced as /link/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Close-mid	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Open-mid	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Open		pronounced as /link/

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See also

Komo people (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Notes and References

Book: Thomas, John Paul . A morphophonology of Komo: non-tonal phenomena . University of North Dakota . 1992.