Mituku
Kinya-Mituku
Native toDR Congo
RegionOrientale Province
Native speakers
51,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Mokpá
Language codes
ISO 639-3zmq
Glottologmitu1242
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.

Tones

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]

References

  1. ^ Mituku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Mituku language". www.language-archives.org. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  4. ^ Laks, Bernard; Durand, Jacques; Goldsmith, John (2002). Phonetics, phonology, and cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 80–83. ISBN 9780198299837.


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