Mituku language

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.

Mituku
Kinya-Mituku
Native to	DR Congo
Region	Orientale Province
Native speakers	(51,000 cited 2000)[1]
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[2]

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]