Mamvu
Native toCongo (DRC)
Native speakers
(60,000 cited 1991)[1]
Dialects
  • Mamvu
  • Amengi
Language codes
ISO 639-3mdi
Glottologmamv1243

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

  1. Mamvu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Bokula, Moiso & Agozia-Kario Irumu. 1994. Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central, Zaïre). Annales Aequatoria 10: 203‒245.
  3. 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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