Mituku language
{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in DR Congo}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Mituku
|altname = Kinya-Mituku
|states = DR Congo
|region = Orientale Province
|speakers = {{sigfig|50900|2}}
|date = 2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor =Niger-Congo
|fam2 =Atlantic–Congo
|fam3 =Benue–Congo
|fam4 =Bantoid
|fam6 =Mbole–Enya (D.10)
|dia1 =Mokpá
|iso3 =zmq
|glotto=mitu1242
|glottorefname=Mitukuic
|guthrie =D.13
}}
Mituku (also known as Kinya-Mituku or Metoko{{cite web |title=OLAC resources in and about the Mituku language |url=http://www.language-archives.org/language/zmq |website=www.language-archives.org |access-date=6 June 2022}}) 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.{{cite book |last1=Laks |first1=Bernard |last2=Durand |first2=Jacques |last3=Goldsmith |first3=John |title=Phonetics, phonology, and cognition |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198299837 |pages=80–83}}
References
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Category:Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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