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Gbanu
Native to	Central African Republic
Ethnicity	Gbaya
Native speakers	(95,000 cited 1996)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Savannas Gbaya Eastern Gbanu–Ngbaka Gbanu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gbv`
Glottolog	`gban1260`

Gbanu (Gbànù, Banu, Gbanou) is a Gbaya language of the Central African Republic. The people do not consider themselves to be ethnically Gbaya.

Phonology

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Gbanu has 14 vowels, oral /i e ɛ a ɔ o u/ and nasal /ĩ ẽ ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃ õ ũ/. Syllables may be maximally CVN, where N is /m/ or /n/. There are four tones on CV syllables, high, low, rising, and falling. Words have six tone patterns, those four plus dipping (falling–rising) and peaking (rising–falling).

Vowels


	Front	Front, Nasal	Back	Back, nasal
Close	i	ĩ	u	ũ
Close-mid	e	ẽ	o	õ
Open-mid	ɛ	ɛ̃	ɔ	ɔ̃
Open	a	ã

Tones


Tone	Rising	High	Low	Falling

Consonants

m	n	j~ɲ		w~ŋm
mb	nd		ŋɡ	ŋmɡb
ɓ~ˀm	ɗ~ˀn
p	t		k	kp	ʔ
b	d		ɡ	ɡb
f	s			h
v	z
	nz
	l

Intervocallically, the only voicing distinction that is maintained is /s, z/; otherwise only voiceless oral stops and fricatives occur between vowels. Nasal consonants lightly nasalize surrounding vowels, and nasal vowels, including those triggered by nasal consonants, nasalize the glottalized consonants. The approximants /j w/ do not occur with nasal vowels, and so may not be phonemic; /j~ɲ/, /w~mŋ/ may be posited as the underlying phonemes.

References

^ Gbanu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

Moñino, Yves (1995). "Phonologie de Gbanu". Le Proto-Gbaya. Paris: Peeters. ISBN 9789068317435. OCLC 611969234.

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Ngbaka	Bangba Baka Gbanzili Mayogo Mbaka Monzombo Mündü Ngombe
Mba	Dongo Ma Mba Ndunga
Ngbandi	Ngbandi Sango

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