| Mamvu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Congo (DRC) |
Native speakers | (60,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mdi |
| Glottolog | mamv1243 |
Mamvu is a Central Sudanic language of northeastern Congo. It is quite similar to Lese.
Mamvu is spoken in Watsa Territory.[2]
Phonology
Mamvu has a doubly articulated [q͡p] [3]
References
- ↑ Mamvu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Bokula, Moiso & Agozia-Kario Irumu. 1994. Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central, Zaïre). Annales Aequatoria 10: 203‒245.
- ↑ Didier Demolin, Bernard Teston (September 1997). "Phonetic characteristics of double articulations in some Mangbutu-Efe languages" (PDF). International Speech Communication Association: 803–806.
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