Mituku | |
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Kinya-Mituku | |
Native to | DR Congo |
Region | Orientale Province |
Native speakers | 51,000 (2000)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zmq |
Glottolog | mitu1242 |
D.13 [2] |
Mituku (also known as Kinya-Mituku or Metoko[3]) is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Mokpá dialect is distinct.
It is a tonal language with four tones: high, low, falling and rising. Downstep can occur between two high tones or between a high and falling tone. A contour (rising or falling) tone can occur on a vowel if and only if the vowel is the realization of two underlying vowels.[4]
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