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Mono is a language spoken by about 65000 people in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the Banda languages a subbranch of the Ubangian branch of the Niger–Congo languages. It has five dialects: Bili Bubanda Mpaka Galaba and Kaga. Mono has 33 consonant phonemes including three labial-velar stops (/k͡p/ /ɡ͡b/ and prenasalized /ᵑ͡ᵐɡ͡b/) an asymmetrical eight-vowel system and a labiodental flap ([ⱱ]) that contrasts with both /v/ and /w/.