Komo language (Bantu)

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.

Not to be confused with Komo language (Sudan).
Komo
Kikuumu
Native toDR Congo
Native speakers
(400,000 cited 1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kmw
Glottologkomo1260
D.23[2]

Phonology

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

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

[3]

See also

Komo people (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References
  1. Komo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. Thomas, John Paul (1992). A morphophonology of Komo: non-tonal phenomena. University of North Dakota.


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