Komo language (Bantu)

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]

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 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 (MA thesis). University of North Dakota. p. 13.


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