Komo language (Bantu)

Not to be confused with Komo language (Sudan).

Komo
Kikuumu
Native to	DR Congo
Native speakers	(400,000 cited 1998) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone D.20–30) Boan Komo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kmw
Glottolog	komo1260
Guthrie code	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.