Mituku language

Mituku
Mituku
Kinya-Mituku
Native to	DR Congo
Region	Orientale Province
Native speakers	51,000 (2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone D) Mbole–Enya (D.10) Mituku; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Mokpá;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zmq
Glottolog	mitu1242
Guthrie code	D.13

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

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

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[e18-1] Mituku at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Guthrie-2] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[OLAC-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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